The number of daily new COVID-19 cases from March 1-September 20, 2022
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./.