The Malta Independent 16 May 2024, Thursday
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614 new Covid-19 cases reported as one patient passes away

Wednesday, 6 July 2022, 12:20 Last update: about 3 years ago

614 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Wednesday, as another patient died while positive for the virus.

549 recoveries from the virus were reported, taking the number of active cases up to 7,845.

2,263 swab tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, equating to a positivity rate of 27.1%.

The Health Ministry has, since the day after the 2022 general election at the end of March, stopped publishing daily bulletins on social media which show details about the pandemic in Malta.

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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.

Malta has had 106,682 cases of the virus. 97,689 of those have recovered, while 752 have died.

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