The government’s latest weekly surveillance report shows another four Covid-19 related deaths have occurred in the island.

This bring the island’s total Covid death toll to 64.

The latest deaths occurred on October 28 and October 30.

Describing the current situation, the report states: ’Over the past week, the trend towards a levelling off and fall in new infections has continued.

’Rates have fallen or levelled off in all age groups apart from those aged 15 to 19 where there has been a slight rise which may be related to schools returning after the half term break.’

Other key statistics include:

- The current seven-day average for confirmed positive cases is around 37

- Most recent seven-day daily average test positivity rate is 18.5% (the percentage of people who test positive for the virus of those overall who have been tested).

- The percentage of PCR tests (administered at the Grandstand facility) from the lateral flow device pathway is slightly decreasing, with percentage of UK arrival tests slightly decreasing over the last two weeks.

ï±- 89% of positive PCR tests are from the LFD pathway.

- The effective reproduction number (Rt) (which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to) was 0.46 this week, indicating that the rate of spread of infection is currently slowing.

When the Rt is more than one, there are more new infections than recoveries, thus the number of infected individuals in the population is increasing.

Director of public health Dr Henrietta Ewart described the drop in this rate over the past few weeks as a positive sign, which could indicate that the wave was ’levelling out’.

Over the last seven days most confirmed positive cases have been in the 15 to 19 age group, and most of these cases are unvaccinated.

Daily and Weekly deaths continue to show a level trend overall.

Fifty three new Covid cases have been detected in the past 24 hours - making for a total of 393 active cases in the island. Four of these were in hospital, and none was in ICU.