187 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday.

It is the highest number of cases reported since 206 cases of the virus were reported on 28 April.

102 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 1,548.

1,231 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equating to a positivity rate of 15.2%.

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 95,829 cases of the virus. 93,162 of those have recovered, while 723 have died.