The aircraft has been sanitized and contact tracing is being effected.
Air Malta has confirmed that today's new COVID-19 case came through a repatriation flight from Amsterdam.
The case was described as an imported, sporadic and symptomatic one during today's Facebook announcement.
The airline recommends all its passengers take a swab test on their return to Malta and following this procedure, a passenger resulted as positive.
Air Malta states that the repatriation flight from Amsterdam was not one of the air bridge destinations which were opened on the 1st of July 2020.
Contact tracing is currently being held by health authorities and the aircraft has been sanitized, with all standard