One patient tests positive to COVID-19 overnight

One patient has tested positive for COVID-19 overnight, Superintendent of Public Health Charmaine Gauci said on Sunday as she urged people to continue following social distancing measures.

This brings the total number of positive cases to 472, of which 306 are active. Another 19 people - 14 men and five women - have recovered, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 118. Three have died and two are in intensive care.

Five of the recovered patients are in their 20s, four in their 30s, four in their 40s, three in their 50s, and one in her 80s. One of them had been recovered.

A total 787 swabs were carried out overnight, bringing the total number to 2,442.

Gauci explained the lower number of tests carried out overnight compared to previous days to people not turning up for the test they were given an appointment for. Anyone who experienced symptoms, she said, should still be tested as even if their symptoms disappeared they might still be passing on the virus if they had it.

The strategy had always been to strengthen tests but the public had to collaborate and contact the authorities immediately as soon as they experienced symptoms.

The positive case is a 29-year-old...