43 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the past 24-hours, with 30 recoveries, health authorities advised that once again, today’s new cases are still being investigated.

Prof Charmaine Gauci, during her weekly update today, said that they are currently seeing an increase in cases from both family and work clusters. There are 47 cases in old people’s homes, from 3 that have been identified.

Prof Gauci said that 14 from the total number of active cases are in Gozo. At last Friday’s briefing the number in Gozo stood at 11.

She explained that there are 32 people being treated in hospital – In Mater Dei 8 are in IDU and 1 is in ICU, 8 at Boffa and 15 at St Thomas. Most patients are recovering at home.

The average age of persons contracting the virus is now 47, previously it had been in the age group of 40 and under, Prof Gauci said.

Prof Gauci explained that that there is currently a case in Malta, the first of its kind, in which a person had  tested positive for Covid-19 on the 13th of April and confirmed recovered on the 27th of April. However, the same person had again tested positive for the virus yesterday.

She added that the authorities are treating this a new case of Covid-19 because of the 4 month time period that had elapsed between the two dates.

Prof Gauci said it is expected that the ECDC will issue guidelines over the coming days regarding the classification of such cases.

There were 2,094 swab tests taken in the past 24-hours, with 211,236 having been taken since the start.

There are now 399 active cases, with 2,247 cases in total. 1,833 have recovered and there have been 15 deaths.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in today’s figures is showing for Malta the 14-day cumulative number of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 is 68.9 with the number of cases as 2,162.  This figure does not include the numbers for today.

Malta is now in seventh position in the EU/EEA and UK. Spain is at the top with 265.5, followed by France with 140.6 Croatia with 91.4, Luxembourg 88.8,  Czechia with 85.6 and Romania with 85.2.

Public Health Authorities said that anyone who needs to take a test should call 111 to set an appointment, even if they do not have any symptoms. It is to be noted that due to the large volume of calls, it can take some time to get through.

All swabbing centres are open every day, including the one in Gozo, however appointments must be made on the above number.

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