There were record 312 new Covid-19 fatalities and 20,515 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Wednesday morning.
There were 20,267 cases in the general population and 248 among prison inmates.
Over the past 24 hours, 22,682 Covid-19 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals.
Since April 1, around when the third wave of Covid-19 began, there have been 940,094 Covid-19 patients, 725,693 of whom have recovered.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 968,957 Covid-19 cases, 753,119 of whom recovered.
The death toll was at 8,191 the third wave and 8,285 from the beginning of the pandemic early last year.
The previous high of daily Covid-19 fatalities was at 239 on Tuesday when there were 20,128 new cases.
