The latest patients consist of eight imported cases and 168,469 domestic infections, said the ministry.

The same day, the ministry also reported 65,445 recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 2,681,447.

It also announced further 87 fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 40,813 or one percent of the national caseload.

The nation has administered 197,571,534 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 284,876 doses from Saturday./.