Four deaths and 786 new coronavirus cases were announced on Saturday. The Ministry of Health also announced that 270 patients are being treated in state hospitals of whom 65 are in serious condition.
The total number of deaths is now 288, while the number of cases recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic in Cyprus stands at 55,407.
The new cases were found out of 57,138 PCR and antigen rapid test carried out. The positivity rate is 1.38%.
The deaths concern a woman 47 years old, who has not been vaccinated, a man aged 71 who had received the first dose of a vaccine, a woman aged 80 with no vaccination record, and a man 88 years old who has not received a jab. All four of them had underlying health conditions.
The total number of deaths is now 288 of whom 189 men ((66%), and 99 are women (34%). Their average age is 78 years.
The Ministry also announced that currently 270 patients are receiving treatment in state hospitals, 65 of them in serious condition. Of them 31 are intubated, six are being treated in Intensive Care Unit, and 28 in Increase Care Unit. The majority, is in Nicosia General Hospital, namely 80. Seventy-four patients are in Nicosia General Hospital, in Limassol 62, in Larnaca Hospital 26 patients are being treated, in Paphos Hospital there are 22 patients and in Makario there are 6 patients.
The 786 new cases were found after 6,058 PCR tests and 51,080 with rapid tests done in the last 24 hours. The new cases were detected as follow: 97 cases were found out of 6, 1,063 samples tested in the process of contact tracing, out of 1,571 samples taken from passengers 3 cases were found, another 161 people were found positive after 3,050 tests done on private initiative, 14 cases were detected from 191 samples taken by Microbiology labs of General Hospitals, 2 people tests positive out of 183 tests done on GPs referrals and special group testing. Additionally, 41 people were found positive out of 1,182 antigen rapid test done in private labs and pharmacies. Finally, 468 cases were found from 49,898 antigen rapid tests.
The positivity rate is higher in Larnaca (1.04%), followed by Limassol (1.02%) In Nicosia the positivity rate stands at 0.89%, in Paphos at 0.97% and in Famagusta at 0.60%.