The same day, 1,434 patients were declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,581,022.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,142 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 259,463,342 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 63,960 doses from Monday./.