There were 69 more Covid-19 fatalities and 26,050 confirmed new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday.
The figures did not include 26,655 positive results from antigen tests over the past 24 hours. This would raise the total to 52,705.
The 69 new fatalities were aged from 11 months to 96 years.
Some 36 imported cases came from 11 countries and included 14 from Myanmar, five from Germany, four from Hong Kong, three from the United Kingdom, two each from Turkey, Cambodia and Israel and one each from France, Indonesia, Belgium and Singapore.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 3,477,030 Covid-19 cases, including 1,253,595 this year, with 3,208,271 complete recoveries to date.
The death toll stood at 24,648 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 2,950 so far this year.
Global Covid-19 cases rose by 1.69 million in 24 hours to 478.18 million. The worldwide death toll went up by 4,830 to 6.13 million.
Over the past seven days, South Korea had the most cases of 2.57 million, followed by Germany with 1.60 million cases, Vietnam with 1.01 million cases and France with 776,117 cases.
