Seventeen new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Saturday, as the number of active cases continues to drop.

Figures released by the health authorities show that the number of active cases is now 111.

The last time the number of active cases was so low was on 7 July 2021.

In all, there have been 114,114 cases recorded in Malta, with 112,806 people who recovered.

The number of deaths remains at 801, with no deaths reported in the last eight days.

The Health Ministry stopped publishing daily bulletins on social media which display details about the pandemic in Malta the day after the March 2022 general election.

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 details about people who died, are not included in the dataset.