Malta has registered 143 new cases of COVID-19 overnight and 201 recoveries.
Three women aged 92, 93 and 100, died while positive with COVID-19. The death toll from the virus now stands at 248.
The seven-day moving average of new cases now stands at 172 cases per day, Public Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci said on Friday in her weekly pandemic update. This represents a slight drop from the previous week.
The number of vaccines administered until yesterday stood at 16,531. Gauci said 616 people had received both doses of the vaccine so far. The second dose started being administered earlier this week.
Gauci said 179 people were being treated in hospitals for COVID-19.
Malta recorded five deaths from COVID-19 overnight and 82 new cases, Public Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci said in today s weekly briefing.
The five people who died included a 66-year-old woman, who died at her home on 21 December but tested positive posthumously for COVID-19. Another victim was an 82-year-old woman who contracted the virus on 11 December and died at Mater Dei Hospital yesterday. The other three victims were men aged 66, 85 and 69 respectively.
The 66-year-old contracted COVID on 4 December and died yesterday at Saint Vincent de Paule, the 85-year-old tested positive on 17 December and died yesterday at the Good Samaritan Hospital, while the 69-year-old tested for coronavirus on 13 December and died at Mater Dei yesterday.