Health Chief Charmaine Gauci is giving her daily press briefing on Coronavirus cases.
Earlier, Health Minister Chris Fearne had anticipated that there were 10 new cases registered in the last 24 hours, six related to travelling and four to local transmission.
This means that, three weeks after the first case was recorded, the number of cases in Malta increased to 149.
The first case had been registered on 7 March.
One of the new cases is of a man, aged 72, who is in critical condition, Gauci said. He developed pneumonia and is intubated. He becomes the third person who were taken to ITU, with two other persons, a 61-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman, who are in a stable condition.
The man was taken to hospital on 26 March, but his condition turned for the worse a day later and tested positive for Coronavirus. He had been in contact with a relative who had been abroad.
Another three cases related to travelling involved three people from the Philippines who came to Malta on 13 March – a woman aged 40 and two men aged 41 and 47. They developed symptoms on different days and tested positive in the last 24 hours.
A man who returned from England on 19 March developed symptoms on 21 March. He had been in quarantine since his return.
Another Maltese man, aged 30, returned from France on 13 March and developed symptoms on 24 March.
Gauci said that in the latter two cases, it was noticed that the patients had lost their sense of smell and taste before developing other symptoms.
The other four cases recorded today are linked to local transmission.
A 34-year-old woman, a health care worker, developed symptoms on 26 March and tested positive in the last 24 hours. A contact tracing exercise is taking place to establish who came in contact with her.
A 36-year-old man, the partner of another patient who developed Coronavirus earlier, alson tested positive. He developed symptoms on 22 March.
The other two cases involved two Indian men, aged 36 and 31, who also tested positive and are now part of a cluster of seven.
