There were 256 more Covid-19 fatalities and 15,972 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Monday morning.

Of new cases, 15,692 were in the general population and 280 among prison inmates.

Over the past 24 hours, 17,281 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals.

Since April 1, around when the third wave of Covid-19 began, there have been 1,161,200 Covid-19 patients, 974,418 of whom have recovered.

Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,190,063 Covid-19 cases, 1,002,746 of whom recovered.

The death toll now stands at 11,305 during the current third wave and at 11,399 from the beginning of the pandemic early last year.

The daily high of Covid-19 cases was 23,418 reported on Aug 13 and the highest number of daily fatalities was 312 reported on Aug 18.