According to the figures published by the National Command and Operation Centre, the country recorded 73 deaths of the infection on Friday.

Out of the 59,136 Covid tests conducted in the last 24 hours, 4,786 people tested positive for the virus.

Meanwhile, the NCOC on Friday, in a message on Twitter, announced that the vaccination centres across the country would remain open on the occasion of Independence Day,

So far more than 41 million people across the country have received first doze of vaccine against the virus, while 11 million people have been fully inoculated.