The same day, 55,181 patients were declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,448,813.
The ministry also announced further five fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,137 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 259,059,262 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 124,437 doses from Wednesday./.