Superintendent of Public Health Charmaine Gauci said on Wednesday that 15 new Covid-19 cases have been reported in the past 24-hours with 5 recoveries, she gave details of cases from the past couple of days.

There are 5 healthcare workers from hospitals across the islands, including a healthcare worker at the Gozo General Hospital aged 56, who is now in isolation.

2 of the latest cases are young children aged 2, symptoms were fever for 1 of them and the other suffered with diarrhoea.

There are 584 cases, 113 are currently active, 465 recovered and there has been 6 deaths. There were 1,670 tests taken in the past 24-hours, with the total so far at 54,866.

Prof Gauci, that 16 out of 26 patients who tested positive in past 24-hours were asymptomatic.

She stressed that the public must follow directives as set out by the health authorities to keep the situation under control, as the virus is still in the community. Prof Gauci, in response to a journalist’s question, said that the relaxing of measures could be reversed if needed.

Prof Gauci’s daily briefings now only take place on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday, when journalist’s questions will also be taken.

Restaurants can open to the public from Friday, it they follow protocols/mitigation measures. These include being inspected prior to opening and a Covid-19 compliant sticker being issued.

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