The Malta Independent 10 May 2024, Friday
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141 new cases of Covid-19 found as one more patient dies

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 12:44 Last update: about 4 years ago

141 new cases of Covid-19 were found on Sunday, the health authorities said.

One more patient has died, bringing the total up to 239, but details were not immediately available.

There are now 2,753 active cases out of a total of 15, 588.

136 people have recovered, for a total of 12,596.

2,866 swab tests were carried out over the past 24 hours. The total number of tests carried out since the start of the pandemic is 566,945.

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The authorities said that Sunday’s cases are still being investigated.

From Saturday’s cases, 38 were family members of previously known cases, 31 were contact of positive work cases, 18 were from direct contact of other positive cases and 29 were from social gatherings with other positive cases.

 

 

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