The number of daily new COVID-19 cases from March 1-September 15, 2022
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./.