166 new Covid-19 cases have been registered in the last 24 hours and recorded on the Public Health Department open source database. There was 1 death registered.

On Friday, Health Minister Chris Fearne said that Omicron XE, which is a new Covid-19 variant had been detected on the Maltese Islands, leading to increased community transmission and rise in the number of cases.

However, he explained that so far there has not been any serious cases of the infection and hospital numbers remained low.

Positive cases in Malta and Gozo are up to 1,615. No information is available for the number in hospital. There have been 724 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

There were 942 tests taken over the same period, making a positivity rate of 17.62%. Tests carried out at home are not included in the figures.

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