Malta has registered 52 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 1,762 swab tests, while 146 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.
As of Saturday 13th March 2021, 197,383 vaccine doses were administered of which 54,578 were 2nd doses.
To date, Malta has registered 29,085 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 27,951 have recovered, 394 died and 740 are still active.
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Police have arrested a 19-year-old teenager moments after he allegedly committed a hold-up in a shop in San Bartolomew Road, Qormi. The incident happened on 30th March 2021, with authorities convening immediately on location after an employee, 34-years-old, reported the incident. Investigations revealed that the employee was approached by a man wielding a pointed weapon and demanded money.
The authorities managed to identify the individual and initiated the search. He was later arrested in a residence in Sliema, and is now being held in Floriana lock-up. The teenager is expected to appear in court today around 12:30 in front of Magistrate Dr Victor Axiak LL.D.
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PriceWaterhouseCooper is implementing a revision of the traditional work week by allowing its employees to work from home, start and/or leave whenever they like. The change follows the pandemic’s effect on businesses and the accounting company wants to offer its workers much more freedom over their working patterns. Chairman Kevin Ellis said that this flexibility should become the norm rather than the exception, making employees feel trusted and empowered.
This post-pandemic strategy aims to retain a mix of working from home and office, as ‘without conscious planning now there’s a risk we lose the best bits of these new ways of working when the economy opens up again’ stated Ellis.
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Child Protective Services used to receive a median of 100 reports of child abuse every month before the pandemic. These numbers however increased to 140 ever since schools closed down due to lockdown. Steve Libreri, the Manager of Foundation for Social Welfare Services, stated that the increases surprised him as reports usually came from schools.
The reports seem to consist all manners of abuse such as verbal, physical and even sexual abuse. The reports also seem to come mainly from adults who notice the abuse, but in certain isolated cases it is the children themselves who report the abuse. Libreri stated that there is a degree of hope as the agency Sedqa does hold courses for children in order for them to realise what constitutes abuse.
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