The number of active cases in the country currently stands at 18,341. Among them are 1,851 infected persons receiving hospital treatment, including 238 who are on ventilators, and 14,332 persons are self-isolating.
A total of 3,715,396 people have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to date, including 11,475 in the last 24 hours.
Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country, 697,952 people have been registered as having contracted the new virus, of whom 12,425 have died and 667,186 have recovered, including 2,499 in the last 24 hours.
As of 27 December, 4,662,872 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered, with 55.52 per cent of the total population, or 66.16 per cent of the adult population, having been vaccinated. A total of 2,253,137 people have received at least one dose and 2,124,416 of them have been fully vaccinated, which is 62.54 per cent of the adult population.