Updated at 6.45pm with suspension of visits to Cospicua care home. 

Another five patients tested positive for coronavirus overnight while no patients recovered, according to data released on Friday.

This brings the total active cases to 36. A total of 1,121 swab tests were carried out over the past 24 hours. 

On Friday evening the government also announced that all visits to a home for the elderly in Cospicua have been halted after a 98-year-old resident tested positive for COVID-19. 

The figure follows a similar one on Thursday, when five new cases were registered. The patients formed part of a known cluster of 13 positive cases.

It is the highest registered figure since May 23, when nine new cases were reported.

So far 645 COVID-19 cases have been reported in Malta, nine of whom died in the past weeks.

At the moment 19 COVID-19 patients are receiving care in hospitals, while one patient is being treated at the ITU. 

The data was uploaded on Facebook by the health authorities, as the live-streamed updates by Superintendent of Public Health Charmaine Gauci were stopped last week. 

Gauci has been driving the country's response to COVID-19 and is a long-time Times of Malta contributor.

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