An addition of 627 patients were declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries to 10,597,136.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,154 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 260,314,915 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 58,422 doses from Monday./.