The number of active cases in the country currently stands at 44,633. Among them are 1,874 infected persons receiving hospital treatment, including 242 who are on ventilators, and 19,072 persons are self-isolating.
A total of 3,877,819 people have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to date, including 16,597 in the last 24 hours.
Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in the country, 765,605 people have been registered as having contracted the new virus, of whom 12,878 have died and 708,094 have recovered, including 4,905 in the last 24 hours.
As of 8 January, 4,832,185 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered, with 55.91 per cent of the total population, or 66.58 per cent of the adult population, having been vaccinated. A total of 2,268,738 people have received at least one dose and 2,163,069 of them have received two doses, which is 63.64 per cent of the adult population.