Six people have tested positive for the Coronavirus over the past 24 hours, but another six people have recovered, Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci said on Sunday. 

This means that the number of active cases remains unchanged, at 58.

In total, 496 people have been infected so far, and 433 have recovered.

1,120 swabs were carried out between Saturday and Sunday. 

Gauci said one of the new patients is a 48-year-old Maltese woman who was already in quarantine since her mother had already tested positive. Symptoms started on 8 May.

The second is a Maltese man, aged 51, who started showing symptoms on 9 May. Contact tracing is being carried out with his relatives and employees.

The third is a Maltese man, 89, who is a patient at Karen Grech Hospital. He was in the same ward as the man who died this week. He had initially tested negative but was re-tested after he started showing symptoms and tested positive. He is in stable condition. Several patients and 45 staff members at the hospital were tested and they all resulted negative.

The other three cases are one cluster. These include two Mater Dei Hospital healthcare workers – two Maltese women aged 25 and 27 – and a patient, a Maltese man aged 53. The other seven patients in the ward tested negative, and so did the 14 staff members tested.

Gauci said the number of patients who require hospitalisation has remained stable.

She appealed to people to adhere to social distancing rules.

 

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