Four Covid-19 patients died over the Easter weekend, with two deaths being reported on Easter Sunday and another two on Monday, data published by health authorities at the start of the week showed.
Malta’s Covid-19 numbers were not published at all by Maltese health authorities on Sunday – not even on the public health department’s open source database – with Easter Sunday’s data only being shared late on Monday morning.
271 new cases were reported on Sunday, while 199 new cases were reported on Monday, summing up to a total of 470 new cases in the two days.
These cases were found from 2,345 (positivity rate of 11.55%) and 1,949 swab tests (positivity rate of 10.21%) respectively.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,059 people were registered as recovered between Sunday and Monday, taking the number of active cases down to 7,153.
1,261,321 doses of the vaccine have been administered thus far, with 353,072 of those being booster doses.
The Health Ministry has, since the day after the 2022 general election at the end of March, stopped publishing daily bulletins on social media which show details about the pandemic in Malta.
Data is still being published by the Health Ministry’s COVID-19 Public Health Response Team on an open source database on the platform GitHub, although certain details such as the number of positive Covid-19 cases in hospital and the details about people who had died are not included in the dataset.
Malta has had 89,028 cases of Covid-19 so far. 80,802 of those have recovered, while 677 have died.