Coronavirus: Three deaths, 835 new cases seen on Monday (updated)

Three deaths and 835 new Covid-19 cases were announced on Monday by the health ministry.

The deaths concern two men aged 68 and 92, and a woman, 83. The 92-year-old man died on Sunday at the Famagusta general hospital. The other two died on Monday in hospital.

This brings the number of deaths from Covid-19 to 623: 397 men and 226 women with an average age of 75.9 years.

The new cases were among 106,483 PCR and rapid tests, giving a positivity rate of 0.78 per cent.

There are 179 patients with Covid-19 in hospital, of whom 60 are in a serious condition, including 23 who are intubated. In total 81 per cent of hospitalisations concern unvaccinated patients.

More than half of the new cases (421) concern people who got rapid tests in private labs and pharmacies, while 49 were detected during contact tracing, 137 were among samples collected through private initiative, two were people referred for testing by their doctors, and seven were among samples collected from state hospital labs.

Among passengers at Larnaca and Paphos airports, 49 cases were detected from 6,605 arrivals.

The remaining 170 concern people who got rapid tests through the health ministry’s testing programme. Three of these cases were detected in special schools, 17 in closed structures, 25 in high schools, 27 in primary schools, and four in nursing homes in Nicosia.

By district, 47 cases were detected in the Nicosia district among 6,064 tests, 20 in Limassol (1,896), 15 in Larnaca (1,411), seven in Paphos (949) and five in the Famagusta district.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic 145,996 cases have been recorded.

In the north, one death and 142 new cases were reported on Monday.