82-year-old man dies from COVID-19

An 82-year-old man has died from COVID-19, the health ministry has announced.

The man was transferred to Mater Dei Hospital from an elderly home on the 1 November.

He was confirmed positive on 2 November, and died yesterday.

The ministry said that he had underlying health conditions.

Malta registered 106 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the Health Authorities announced.

Information released by the Health Ministry on Facebook shows that there were 108 recoveries, bringing the total of active cases to 1,937.

Today’s cases are still being investigated but from the cases discovered yesterday, 23 cases were family members of previously known cases, 10 were contacts of positive work colleagues, two were contacts with other positive cases, one was imported and two were from social gatherings with other positive cases.

2,816 swabs were conducted in the last 24 hours, with a grand total of 346,106 swabs having been conducted since the start of the pandemic

Malta has registered 6,506 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in March.

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