15-year-old Maltese swimmer Sasha Gatt breaks national record

Jun 7 2021

15-year-old local swimming prodigy Sasha Gatt has made waves both figuratively and literally as she broke her own national record in a 400m freestyle event at Malta’s Olympic Qualifying meet at Tal-Qroqq.

The two-day event saw Gatt’s own national record set for the first time back in February where she registered a time of 4:23:33, going on to set the new record at 4:18:58.

The swimmer said she was ‘over the moon’ with her performance and improvement and went on to thank her coach Catalin Stan for the support and training.

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Maltese call for weekly COVID-19 update as Florida enacts new system

Jun 7 2021

The Health Department of Florida in the United States has announced that it will no longer publish the state’s daily pandemic update as it has been doing in the past months but will now publish a weekly COVID-19 update.

The authorities stated that there is no longer a need for daily updates since the state is allegedly close to complete normality, making in the first American state to halt updates every 24 hours.

After seeing such news, many Maltese went on to call for the same procedure to be adopted in Malta, with a weekly update instead of daily one.

On Sunday, Malta was reported to have a COVID-19 reproduction rate of 0.26, as revealed by statistician Vincent Marmara.

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These are the COVID-19 measures being eased from today

Jun 7 2021

As Malta continues to traverse its way through the COVID-19 pandemic, the country welcomes a new set of eased measures on the Sette Giugnio public holiday.

Groups of maximum 6 allowed in public
Table maximum increased to 6
Bars & band clubs to open until midnight
Cinemas & theatres to reopen
Contact sports for 17+ to resume
Gaming & betting establishments to reopen

Today, Health Minister Chris Fearne announced that no new cases of COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours and went on to encourage discipline and responsibility amongst the Maltese population.

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No new cases of COVID-19 for the first time since summer 2020

Jun 7 2021

For the first time since summer 2020, no new COVID-19 cases have been registered over the past 24 hours.

This was reported by Health Minister Chris Fearne earlier today on Twitter, where he went on to wish a great holiday to all Maltese citizens.

The minister went on to appeal for discipline and responsibility amongst the population as a number of measures are removed today, amongst them the reopening of bars and band clubs after months of having their doors closed.

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