There were 261 new Covid-19 cases reported to the authorities, with four more patient deaths recorded, statistics issued Tuesday show.

The total number of cases has now reached 111,410.

There were 604 recoveries, for a total of 104,578 so far.

777 people have now died while positive for the virus.

The number of active cases is now 5,659.

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.