All the latest patients are domestic infections recorded in 58 out of 63 cities and provinces nationwide. The same day, the ministry said there were additional 46,907 recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 9,163,132.
The ministry also announced further five fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,034 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 213,317,994 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 256,268 doses from Tuesday./.