29 new cases of coronavirus, three from Mount Carmel Hospital

Four recoveries registered

11 August 2020, 12:41pm
by Karl Azzopardi

29 new cases of COVID-19 were registered on Tuesday.

Malta now has 440 active cases.

1,882 swabs were carried out in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of swabs to 145,267.

The Health Ministry said that three cases were linked to Mount Carmel Hospital, two cases were linked to a Paceville cluster and five cases were linked to positive family members.

OFFICIAL COVID-19 figures for 11•08•2020 Chris Fearne | MaltaGov | Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate
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Another case is linked to a previously known case at work.

Contact tracing is ongoing.

Four recoveries were registered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 692.

The total number of cases stands at 1,141.

Nine have died from the virus.

Karl Azzopardi is Online Editor and an IGM press awards (Human Stories) winner of 2019