The country registered 12 more Covid-19 fatalities and 7,422 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Tuesday morning.
This compared with the 16 coronavirus-related fatalities and 8,008 new cases reported on Monday morning.
There were 7,161 local cases and 261 imported ones.
On Monday, 8,715 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 2,447,964 Covid-19 cases, including 224,529 cases this year, with 2,342,765 complete recoveries to date.
The accumulated death toll stood at 22,185 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 487 so far this year.
The highest number of Covid-related fatalities in a 24-hour period was 312 recorded on Aug 13. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 18.
