Due to a recent spike in Covid-19 cases, Malta has officially been put back on the orange travel list by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) after being on the ECDC green list for two months.

Cases have gone up from 250 to over 700 within a stretch of two weeks. There are currently 15 patients in hospital with only three being treated at the ITU.

85,000 booster shots have been administered already with Malta's thriving booster shot programme.

In the past few weeks, Europe has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases in several countries, as almost all countries have been relegated to the orange and red lists.

Countries classified as green have the best infection and positivity rates, followed by those in orange, then red. Countries with the worst infection rates are classified under the dark red category.