The country registered 80 more Covid-19 fatalities, the highest in the new wave, and a record high of 27,071 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Friday morning.
This compared with the 77 coronavirus-related fatalities and 25,456 new cases reported on Thursday morning.
There were 27,022 local cases and 49 imported ones.
On Thursday, 21,522 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus while 230,603 others were receiving treatment (up from 225,134 on the previous day).
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 3,303,169 Covid-19…
