Two deaths from COVID-19 announced, cases reach 3,470 last week

Two deaths were announced by the Ministry of Health on Friday, while the new COVID-19 cases reached 3,470 last week.

According to the Ministry, between June 10-16, a total of 53,416 tests were carried out while the positivity rate reached 6.55%.

The deaths occurred June 9 and 11 and concern a woman aged 84 and a male, aged 91 and.

This brings the total number of deaths from COVID-19 to 1,070, while 497,454 cases have been recorded since the beginning of the pandemic.

Thirty-four patients with COVID-19 are being treated in hospital, of whom one is in serious condition. One patient remains intubated in the ICU and six post-COVID patients remain in a high dependency unit.

During the past week, 3,168 PCR tests and 50,248 rapid tests were carried out.

Two positive cases were traced through the tracking programme, while 203 new cases were detected using PCR and 3,068 using rapid testing on private initiative. Another 135 cases were detected in the context of the Health Ministry’s testing programmes, while 120 cases were found at the testing sites.

Six cases were detected in the National Guard and nine cases in nursing homes.