There were 260 new Covid-19 cases reported Friday, with the number of active patients jumping to 2,316, figures released by the health authorities show.

No new deaths were recorded, meaning that the number of victims remains at 728.

Since the first case was registered, Malta has accumulated 97,278 cases, with 93,838 recoveries.

The Health Ministry has 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.