An 84-year old woman has passed away during the last 24-hours while Covid positive, Authorities have said.

Another day with lower number as 437 new Covid-19 cases were found overnight and 542 recoveries, which now takes the number of active cases in Malta and Gozo to 14,053.

There has been an increase in patients requiring treatment in Mater Dei Hospital at 131 (which is the only one being reported) including 7 who are in ITU.

Authorities said there have been 489 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

The number of booster doses administered up until yesterday is 278,153.

The latest data from the ECDC has said that its assessment of each country’s epidemiological situation is based on a composite score based on the absolute value and trend of five weekly Covid-19 epidemiological indicators.For week 52 – 2nd January, 10 countries (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, and Malta) were categorised as of very high concern.

As of week 52, Malta was the third highest country in the EU with a score of 90, behind Estonia and France, who were both at 93.There was also data available for Malta in graph form for cases, deaths and testing.And hospital occupancy by Covid-19 cases.

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