The same day, additional 13,939 patients were declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,140,204.

The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,111 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.

The nation has administered  255,563,861 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 374,992 doses from Friday./.