The number of people admitted to hospital for treatment for COVID-19 has fallen by a quarter during the semi-shutdown introduced to stop the spread of the virus.
Some 113 people are being treated for the virus, Charmaine Gauci told a briefing, down 24 per cent from the 150 she detailed in her last update before schools, restaurants and non-essential shops closed on March 11.
Those being treated in intensive care have almost halved, from 28 on the day the quasi-lockdown was announced, to 15 on Thursday.
"We can see the correlation between hospitalisation and what is happening on the outside: when active cases decrease so do people who need hospital stays," she said. "It's good and it's encouraging.