Covid-19 - 456 new patients; number of active cases doubles to 4,666 in a week

The number of active Covid-19 cases has doubled in a week – from 2,316 on 17 June to 4,666 on Saturday, figures released today by the health authorities show.

The number of new cases registered Saturday was 456, taking the total of Covid-19 cases in Malta to 100,594. There were more than 3,000 cases recorded in the last week. There have been 94,792 recoveries.

The number of victims has remained at 740. Three months ago, the Health Ministry 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.