There were 80 more Covid-19 fatalities and 25,164 confirmed new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Wednesday.
The figures did not include 26,812 positive results from antigen tests over the past 24 hours. This would raise the total to 51,976.
The latest 80 fatalities were between the ages of two months and 95 years and included one foreigner, a Vietnamese.
Some 48 imported cases came from 18 countries and included 17 from Turkey, four each from Singapore and Germany, three each from the United Kingdom and Malaysia and two each from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Australia.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 3,423,956 Covid-19 cases, including 1,200,521 this year, with 3,162,331 complete recoveries to date.
The death toll stood at 24,497 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 2,799 so far this year.
Global Covid-19 cases rose by 1.68 million in 24 hours to 474.67 million. The worldwide death toll went up by 4,965 to 6.12 million.
