The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,834 had tested positive from 91,348 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.01 per cent.

The deaths concerned two women aged 77 and 78, taking the total over the past two years to 876.

There are 128 people in hospitals of whom 28 are in serious condition. Of these, 12 are intubated.

The ministry said that the percentage of unvaccinated patients was 54.6 per cent.

Of the total tests, 3,410 were PCR detecting 224 positives and 87,938 were rapid tests detecting 1,610 positives.

From contact tracing, there were 54 positives, and from the ministry’s free programme there were 625 positives from 35,169 rapid tests. The remainder were private initiative tests.