There were 624 new Covid-19 cases reported to the authorities, figures released by the health authorities on Thursday show.

This has taken the number of active cases to 7,941, the higher they have been since 15 April.

One other death was reported, taking the total to 753.

In all, Malta has officially registered 107,306 cases since the pandemic broke in March 2020. There have been 98,216 people who recovered.

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.