There were 63 more Covid-19 fatalities and 24,792 confirmed new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday morning.
The figures did not include 21,626 positive results from antigen tests over the past 24 hours. That would raise the total number of new cases to 46,418.
The 63 latest fatalities were people between the ages of 28 and 93 years and included one foreigner, an American.
There were 24,554 new cases in the general population, 158 among prison inmates and 80 imported cases.
Of the local Covid-19 infections in the general population, 24,308 were confirmed at hospitals and 246 via mass testing.
The 24-hour period also saw 22,065 Covid-19 patients discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
The death toll stood at 23,575 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 1,877 so far this year.
Global Covid-19 cases rose by 1.79 million in 24 hours to 453.64 million. The worldwide death toll went up by 6,621 to 6.05 million.
