The country registered 69 more Covid-19 fatalities, a new high of the new wave, and 18,943 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning.
There were 18,877 local cases and 66 imported ones.
On Monday, 25,005 Covid-19 patients left hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus while 224,328 others were at hospitals.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 3,066,800 Covid-19 cases, including 843,365 this year, with 2,819,103 complete recoveries to date.
The death toll stood at 23,369 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 1,671 so far this year.
