There were 8 new Covid-19 case recorded in the past 24-hours from 2,026 swab tests – making a 0.39% positivity rate. There were 4 recoveries and no new deaths registered.

Active cases are now at 70 in Malta and Gozo. The total number of cases since the start of the pandemic in Malta is 30,543 and there have been 30,054 recoveries and 419 deaths.

928,790 swab tests have been taken since the start of the pandemic in Malta.

519,994 doses of the vaccine have been administered up until yesterday. 210,486 are now fully vaccinated, while 99,022 are partly vaccinated.

WHO has announced that it has assigned “simple, easy to say and remember labels for key variants, using letters of the Greek alphabet and in the order they were discovered – Alpha – UK, Beta – South African, Gamma – Brazil and Delta for the Indian variant.

It advised that these labels were chosen after wide consultation and a review of many potential naming systems. WHO convened an expert group of partners from around the world to do so, including experts who are part of existing naming systems, nomenclature and virus taxonomic experts, researchers and national authorities.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has advised that it will be reporting figures on a weekly basis – every Thursday. As of the 27th of May, it shows that the number of cases recorded for Malta is at 30,506 and the number of deaths showing is 417. The 14-day cumulative number of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 is now 9.33, the lowest in the EU.

The ECDC said that the above data are collected between Monday and Wednesday for the proceeding week.

The Ministry of Health called on the public to continue to follow the preventive measures so that we can protect the most vulnerable in our society – This includes wearing of masks, social distancing and hand hygiene.

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