Malta has registered 362 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 4,146 swab tests, while 230 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.
As of Wednesday 3rd March 2021, 86,854 vaccine doses were administered of which 30,329 were 2nd doses.
To date, Malta has registered 23,588 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 20,135 have recovered, 325 died and 3,128 are still active.
Since the beginning of 2021, the Malta Police force along with LESA have distributed 2,300 fines related to the breaking of COVID-19 rules in Malta.
This was reported by Minister for Home Affairs Byron Camilleri during his statement regarding the enforcement of COVID-19 measures and stated that while the enforcement is happening, it requires collaboration with the community.
When asked regarding the electric chair in prison, the Minister stated that the chair was used only once to avoid a prisoner’s actions in harming himself or others.
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Following the recent conflict with regards to MPs and queue-skipping, Deputy Minister Chris Fearne has revealed that he will be personally telling Bernard Grech which Nationalist Party MPs asked him to skip vaccination queues, but will refrain from publicly addressing the issue in Parliament.
A few remarks on Wednesday turned into a heated argument as Fearne revealed that it was in fact PN MPs who had asked him to skip the queue, with PN’s Claudette Buttigieg highlighting the bizarre experience which had happened to her and her daughter.
Buttigieg explained that a health official falsely stated that they were to ‘receive treatment abroad’ in order to skip the queue, to which she refused and went on to advise them not to use her daughter to coerce her into skipping the queue.
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The state of Texas has just lifted all COVID-19 restrictions, as Texan governor Greg Abbott stated that Texas is ‘open 100%’ while also reportIng the ending of the statewide mask mandate.
I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%.
EVERYTHING.
I also ended the statewide mask mandate.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 2, 2021
Texas has experienced a consistent increase in COVID-19 cases over the past week, as did Mississippi, whose governor also announced that the state will also be opening at full capacity and lifting all restrictions.
Texas has registered the third-highest death rate in the United States, after California and New York with 44,000 deaths.
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