The health authorities said 166 new Covid-19 cases were registered on Saturday.

There was also one more death, as the tally of victims now reached 724.

The number of cases registered in Malta is now 95,995, with 93,260 recoveries.

The number of active cases has gone up for the third day running, reaching 1,615.

The Health 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.