The same day, the ministry reported 175,540 new recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 5,001,564.
It also announced further 51 fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 42,196 or 0.5 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 204,566,009 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 344,321 doses from Thursday./.