The number of active Covid-19 cases has shot up again, to near 7,000, as 583 new cases were reported Saturday.

Three more deaths were recorded, taking the tally to 747.

Figures released by the health authorities show that the number of active cases is now 6,967, up from 6,666 on Friday.

The last time Malta had more than 7,000 cases was on 18 April.

In all, Malta has had 104,419 Covid-19 cases, with 96,309 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.