Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister, Dr. Chris Fearne, will address an urgent press conference at 3pm from the Ministry for Health in Valletta.
This follows the announcement the travellers arriving in Malta from the UK will have to quarantine for 14 days due to the revelation of the COVID-19 variant.
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For the next two weeks, the Superintendent for Public Health, Prof. Charmaine Gauci will be addressing Health Conferences on Wednesdays instead of Fridays.
This is due to the fact that the following two Fridays will fall on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
The conferences will still be held at 12.30pm on TVM, tvm.com.mt and live streamed on the saħħa page.
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Malta has registered 88 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,868 swab tests, while 137 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.
From yesterday’s cases; 16 cases were family members of previously known cases 12 cases were contact of positive work colleagues, 6 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases and 4 were from social gatherings with other positive cases.
To date, Malta has registered 11,802 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 10,115 have recovered, 194 died and 1,493 are still active.
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A number of cars caught fire in Gudja last night at 11.45pm, completely burning 18 cars and causing damages to others.
Local police were called to the scene from the Civil Protection Department, successfully preventing any injuries.
The Police Arsons Unit and Żejtun District Police are currently investigating the case.
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