The country registered 41 more Covid-19 fatalities and a record high of 24,932 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Friday morning.
There were 24,765 local cases and 167 imported ones.
The figures did not include 22,509 positive results from antigen tests over the past 24 hours.
On Thursday, 15,774 Covid-19 patients left hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 2,819,282 Covid-19 cases, including 595,847 cases this year, with 2,606,363 complete recoveries to date.
The death toll stood at 22,809 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 1,111 so far this year.
