The current surge in new Covid-19 cases continues with 733 having been found overnight, another record number, 582 were reported yesterday.
Working on the number of 7000 as the number of swabs taken on Wednesday as advised by Prof Charmaine Gauci this morning, this makes the positivity rate 10.47.
As confirmed by Health Minister Chris Fearne on Thursday, 2 cases of Omicron have been detected in Malta from people who tested positive several days ago, suggesting that the current surge in cases is down to the new variant.
The number of Covid patients requiring treatment in hospital has increased to 53 including 3 in ITU.
Authorities said that there were 92 new recoveries recorded in the past 24 hours, this now takes the number of active cases up to over 3,600, at 3,632.
There have been 473 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Health Authorities said that the number of booster doses administered up until yesterday is 181,278.