Four more Covid-19 patients have died, health authorities said Saturday.

This is the highest number of deaths in a single day since 21 June, when five people had died.

The number of victims has now risen to 772.

On Saturday, the health authorities reported 242 new cases, although the number could be much higher as people taking home tests may not be reporting their status to the authorities.

In all, Malta has had 110,743 cases, with 102,990 recoveries.

The number of active cases is now 6,585.

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.