The health authorities said Saturday that 279 new Covid-19 cases were recorded, along with two deaths.

No details about the victims were given, as the number of deaths related to Covid-19 has now climbed to 730.

The total number of cases has reached 97,557, with 93,964 recoveries.

There are now 2,467 active cases.

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.