The same day, additional 5,186 patients were declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,014,637.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,097 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 250,992,746 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 582,931 doses from Friday./.