Malawi has registered 16 new COVID-19 cases as well as 55 new recoveries and the total number of cases has hit 4,674.

Co-chairperson of the Presidential Taskforce on Coronavirus John Phuka announced the new cases on Monday.

He said all the new cases are locally transmitted infections.

They include four each from Blantyre and Lilongwe, two from Chikwawa, one each from Chiradzulu, Dowa, Kasungu, Mchinji, Mzimba North and Mzimba South.

In total, Malawi has 4,673 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 146 deaths and 2,430 recoveries.