Another five patients tested positive for coronavirus overnight while no patients recovered, according to data released on Friday.
This brings the total active cases to 36. A total of 1,121 swab tests were carried out over the past 24 hours.
The figure follows a similar one on Thursday, when five new cases were registered. The patients formed part of a known cluster of 13 positive cases.
It is the highest registered figure since May 23, when nine new cases were reported.
So far 645 COVD-19 cases have been reported in Malta, nine of whom died in the past weeks.
At the moment 19 COVD-19 patients are receiving care in hospitals, while one patient is being treated at the ITU.
The data was uploaded on Facebook by the health authorities, as the live-streamed updates by Superintendent of Public Health Charmaine Gauci were stopped last week.
Gauci has been driving the country’s response to COVID-19 and is a long-time Times of Malta contributor.
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