The country registered 18 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,299 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Thursday morning.
This compared with the 19 coronavirus-related fatalities and 2,387 new cases reported on Wednesday morning.
There were 2,294 local cases and five imported cases.
On Wednesday, 1,783 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus while 21,650 others were receiving treatment (up from 21,152 on the previous day).
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 4,507,228 Covid-19 cases, including 2,283,793 this year, with 4,455,035 complete recoveries to date.
The accumulated death toll stood at 30,543 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 8,845 so far this year.
