The government’s weekly Covid-19 surveillance report shows there have been three more Covid-related deaths in the island.

The latest deaths occurred on October 12, 22 and 25.

This brings the overall number of coronavirus related deaths since the start of the pandemic to 60.

It also states that the number of patients admitted in hospital with a positive Covid status is 11.

Of the 11, 81.8% were fully vaccinated and 18.2% were unvaccinated.

The current seven-day average for confirmed positive cases is around 70, with the current overall trend of confirmed cases levelling off according to the report.

It also states that over the last seven days, most confirmed positive cases have been in the 10 -14 age group. All of these cases are unvaccinated.

The effective reproduction number (Rt) was 0.8 this week, down from 1.3 last week, which indicates that the rate of spread of infection in the island may be slowing.

The Rt represents the number of secondary infections generated by each case over time (’t’) and can be dramatically modified by applying effective interventions.

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.

However when the Rt is less than one, the number of infected individuals must be decreasing for the opposite reason.