The country registered 13 more Covid-19 fatalities and 6,929 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Monday morning.
This compared with the 8,077 coronavirus-related fatalities and nine new cases reported on Sunday morning.
There were 6,720 cases in the general population and 209 among prison inmates.
On Sunday, 5,255 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 2,331,414 Covid-19 cases, including 107,979 cases this year, with 2,227,266 complete recoveries to date.
The accumulated death toll stood at 21,938 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 240 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.
