Coronavirus: 218 new cases, no deaths (Updated)

Health authorities on Monday announced that 218 more people have tested positive for the coronavirus, while no new deaths were reported.

Islandwide, a total of 23,144 tests (PCR and rapid) were carried out. Monday’s positivity rate came to 0.94 per cent.

On the hospital front, 208 patients were being treated, of whom 40 in a serious condition.

Of the 40 in a serious patients, 17 are intubated, seven are in ICU without a ventilator, and 16 are being treated in a high-dependency unit.

The new cases are a marked decrease on Sunday’s figure of 374 because Monday was a public holiday and far fewer tests were carried out, 23,144 compared to Sunday’s 41,269.

Based on Monday’s results, the positivity rate in Nicosia is 0.54 per cent, Larnaca at 0.26 per cent, Paphos at 1.01 per cent, Famagusta at 0.61 per cent. Limassol remains far ahead with a positivity rate of 1.72 per cent.

The latest results bring the number of people testing positive to 39,869 since the start of the outbreak last year.

A breakdown of the positive tests showed: four from private initiative; five from samples analysed by the microbiology labs of state hospitals; nine from rapid tests conducted at private clinical laboratories; and 200 from the rapid test programme carried out island-wide by the health ministry.

The number of deaths attributed to Covid-19 remains at 240. Of the deceased, 159 are men and 81 women. The average age of the deceased is 79 years.

The Famagusta referral hospital for Covid-19 was treating 68 patients, of whom three in the high-dependency unit.

At Nicosia general hospital there are 57 Covid-19 patients, of whom 24 in ICU.

Limassol general hospital has 66 patients, six of whom in the high-dependency unit.

At Larnaca general there are 14 patients in the dedicated Covid-19 ward.

Finally, Makarios hospital is treating three patients.