The country registered 22 more Covid-19 fatalities and 8,587 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Wednesday morning.
This compared with the 12 coronavirus-related fatalities and 7,422 new cases reported on Tuesday morning.
There were 8,456 local cases and 131 imported ones.
On Tuesday, 8,485 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 2,456,551 Covid-19…