Coronavirus: one death and 223 cases on Monday (Updated)

The health ministry on Monday announced one death and 223 new coronavirus cases, after 74,092 PCR and rapid tests, with a positivity rate of 0.30 per cent.

A 55-year-old man who died on Sunday at the Nicosia general hospital’s intensive care unit. This brings the number of people who died from Covid-19 to 516: 334 men and 182 women with average age of 76.4 years.

There are 139 patients with Covid-19 in state hospitals, 41 of whom in serious condition. Seventeen of these are intubated. According to the health ministry, 82.7 per cent of people being treated for Covid-19 in hospital are not vaccinated.

Six of the new cases are passengers at the Larnaca and Paphos airports, 13 were people found positive through contact tracing, 37 are people who got PCR tests privately and 119 are people who got rapid tests privately.

Another four are samples that were processed in state hospital labs, and one was among people who were referred for testing by a doctor.

The remaining 43 were found by rapid tests carried out in all districts on behalf of the health ministry. Among those were 10 cases detected in nursing homes in the Famagusta district and one in the Nicosia district. Another case was detected during testing at the airports and one in closed structures.

In addition, nine cases were detected in the Nicosia district among 8,306 tests. Six cases were detected in Limassol (2,763), seven in Larnaca (2,931), three in Paphos (2,573), and five in the Famagusta district (1,769).

The number of cases so far is 116,991.