Today marks the day that 50 Mater Dei Employees (who are front-liners working closely with COVID-19 patients)have been given their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
TVM reported that Walter Busuttil, The Medical Director of Mater Dei said that by, “Wednesday all the staff who are in direct contact with patients will have taken the first dose, with all the Mater Dei staff expected to have taken both doses by the last week of February.”
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The Malta Health Authorities have vaccinated 11,705 people till yesterday.
This was the number of vaccines administered yesterday Sunday, 17th of January 2021, as announced on the Ministry for Health’s Facebook page, saħħa.
It was recently reported that Malta’s vaccine roll-out is among the fastest in the EU. Health Minister Chris Fearne also said that Malta is expected to have vaccinated more than 13,000 individuals by the end of the week.
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Malta has registered 154 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 3,239 swab tests, while 121 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.
To date, Malta has registered 15,742 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 12,717 have recovered, 241 died and 2,784 are still active.
During the last 24 hours, 2 male patients aged 73 and 84 years died at Mater Dei Hospital, while Covid-19 positive.
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