The country registered 85 more Covid-19 fatalities and record 27,560 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Thursday morning.
This compared with the 87 coronavirus-related fatalities and 25,389 new cases reported on Wednesday morning.
There were 27,499 local cases and 61 imported ones.
On Wednesday, 25,077 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus while 246,770 others were receiving treatment (up from 244,372 on the previous day).
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have…
