75% of adults vaccinated in UK as country registers zero new deaths on June 1

Jun 3 2021

The UK government has announced that three out of four British adults have been vaccinated with at least one dose, with The Department of Health reporting that 75.2% of over 18s have received at least one shot and 49.5% being fully vaccinated.

The UK is currently battling what is being called a ‘third wave’ with the new Indian variant accounting for the majority of the country’s new cases.

On 1 June, the country registered zero new daily COVID-19 deaths for the first time since 30 July 2020.

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4 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 4 recoveries

8 COVID-19 cases registered with 4 recoveries

Jun 3 2021

Malta has registered 4 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,799 swab tests, while 4 patients have recovered. No deaths were registered in the past 24 hours. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Thursday 3rd June 2021, 534,639 vaccine doses were administered of which 322,359 were 1st doses. 221,595 people are currently fully vaccinated.

To date, Malta has registered 30,557 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 30,062 have recovered, 419 died and 76 are still active.

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Education Ministry announces summer classes due to high level of absenteeism

Jun 3 2021

The Ministry for Education has announced that the government has allocated over €250,000 into summer classes for students who were set back by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education minister Justyne Caruana, together with Parliamentary Secretary for EU funds Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi welcomed the programme, which will be provided to students of both primary and secondary level. The catch-up classes will see to provide revision of work done during the previous scholastic year, which also showed to have a high level of absenteeism from a considerable number of students.

The Ministry for Education has announced that the government has allocated over €250,000 into summer classes for students who were set back by the COVID-19 pandemic. Education minister Justyne Caruana, together with Parliamentary Secretary for EU funds Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi welcomed the programme, which will be provided to students of both primary and secondary level.

𝗚𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗴ħ𝗮𝗻-𝗡𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗮’ 𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗻 𝗸𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗮’ 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗷𝘂𝗻 𝗳’𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗮 𝗴ħ𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵-𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀L-edukazzjoni ta’…

Posted by Justyne Caruana on Wednesday, 2 June 2021

The catch-up classes will see to provide revision of work done during the previous scholastic year, which also showed to have a high level of absenteeism from a considerable number of students. The catch-up course will run for eight weeks between July 12 and September 3 on a four-day week running from 8.30am until 12pm with application details to be issued in the coming days.

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2020 had the fewest number of babies named ‘Karen’ since 1932

Jun 3 2021

Due to an influx of memes and amusing coincidental circumstance, the name “Karen” has evolved into what media platform Vox have called the average “basic white person name” often related to mothers who sport a particular haircut and often want to speak to the manager.

Due to such a cultural evolution, the name’s popularity has diminished over the years, with America’s Social Security Administration reporting that only 325 newborn babies were named Karen, representing only 0.019% of all female births in 2020.

This was the least amount of infants named Karen since 1932 – do you think the name will die out?

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