The number of Covid-19 cases in Malta exceeded 100,000 on Friday, as 479 cases were reported.
Two more deaths were also registered, taking the total to 740. No details were given by the health authorities.
Malta registered its first case on 7 March 2020.
On Friday, the number of new cases was 479, taking the total to 100,138.
There have been 94,624 recoveries.
The number of active cases is now 4,378.
There has been a constant spike in the number of cases in the last few days.
More than 2,000 cases have been recorded in the last four days, with the number of active cases jumping from 2,881 on Monday to 4,378 on Friday. This is the highest number of active cases since 27 April.
There have been more Covid-19 related deaths in less than six months of 2022 than the whole of 2021.
Between 1 January 2022 and today, 263 patients have died with Covid-19.
In the whole of 2021, 258 patients died.
Three months ago, the Health Ministry 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.