There were 70 more Covid-19 fatalities and after four days of declines, a sharply higher 23,945 confirmed new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Wednesday morning.
This compared with the 70 coronavirus-related fatalities and 19,742 new cases reported on Tuesday morning.
The figures did not include 24,059 positive results from antigen tests over the past 24 hours – almost double Tuesday’s figures. This would raise the total to 48,004.
The latest 70 fatalities were between the ages of 1 and 98 years and…