Figures released by the health ministry show 340 COVID-19 patients are in hospital, 55 of them in intensive care.
However, for a second consecutive day the government has withheld test results.
Daily new case numbers were lately more than 1,000 and on last officials count, the tally of the pandemic had breached the 40,000-mark.
So far the pandemic has claimed 370 lives and according to a local epidemiologist, 14 percent of them had been fully vaccinated.
Hospitals are at capacity and additional medical personnel are being brought in from France.
