The Health Ministry said on Friday afternoon that 417 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed since midnight out of nearly 25,000 tests conducted showing a positivity rate of 1.7%.
There are currently 560 people being treated for the virus in hospital, 318 of them in serious condition with 123 on ventilators.
Two people have died on Friday brining the death toll from the start of the pandemic to 2,744.