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175 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 67 recoveries

Jan 16 2021 Share

Malta has registered 175 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 3,293 swab tests, while 67 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

From yesterday’s cases; 49 cases were family members of previously known cases, 15 cases were contacts of positive work colleagues, 12 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases, 15 cases were from social gatherings with other positive cases.

To date, Malta has registered 15,447 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 12,460 have recovered, 238 died and 2,749 are still active.

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Oliver Scicluna is to be elected as a Parliamentary Member

Jan 16 2021 Share

The Malta Labour Party has confirmed that Oliver Scicluna who is the commissioner for the Right of Disabled Persons will be elected as a Member of Parliament.

Scicluna’s name was proposed by the Prime Minister in front of the Labour Party’s Parliamentary Group.

The nomination was approved unanimously.

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MUMN urges for vaccines to be spread out following crowding at Health Centres

Jan 16 2021 Share

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses has urged the Health Authorities to spread out vaccinations after numerous reports of crowding at Health Centres.

The current time slots are of 5 patients every 15 minutes, MUMN has called for better organisation during such a time and for the time slots to be adjusted to 30 minutes.

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All UK arrivals to quarantine as death tolls rise

Jan 16 2021 Share

People who will be travelling to the UK are now required to provide a negative COVID-19 test and quarantine upon arrival in the UK.

Their new case numbers are decreasing but the UK is seeing an increase in hospitalisations and deaths related to COVID-19.

The new rules will come into force as from Monday.

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