The Malta Independent 9 May 2024, Thursday
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66 new Covid-19 cases reported as two Covid-19 patients die

Sunday, 29 May 2022, 12:49 Last update: about 3 years ago

66 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Sunday, while two people have died while positive for Covid-19.

97 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,419.

1,257 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equating to a positivity rate of 6.8%.

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.

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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 94,579 cases of the virus. 92,043 of those have recovered, while 721 have died.

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