Just one new case of COVID-19 was reported on Monday as six patients recovered.

In their daily update, the health authorities said 1,021 swab tests were conducted over the past 24 hours. 

There were no new deaths, and the number of active cases is now down to just 54 people.

There have now been a total of 419 deaths to date as well as 30,582 confirmed cases.

More than half population fully vaccinated

The number of vaccination jabs increased to 589,507, with 260,424 people now fully vaccinated. 

Those figures mean that 50.6 per cent of Malta's total population is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, based on the most recent population data made available by the National Statistics Office. 

Vaccination is currently available to anyone aged 16 and over, with plans to make vaccines available to children aged over 12 also in the pipeline. 

As of last Friday, more than 57 per cent of residents aged 16 and over had been fully vaccinated, with that figure rising to 76 per cent when calculating people who have received just one dose.  

Having allowed bars, cinemas and theatres to reopen this month, the government is now targeting the gradual resumption of larger-scale events for fully vaccinated people.