Customs cash sniffer dog discovers €13,000 in undeclared money during airport search

Feb 1 2021

Customs Officials have discovered €13,000 in undeclared cash with assistance from the customs sniffer dog in a passenger’s luggage at the Malta International Airport.

The passenger was bound for a country within the European Union and, Sophie the sniffer dog reacted to the passenger’s luggage.

The passenger was asked by customs officials whether he was carrying excess cash and the passenger denied it. Upon inspection, €13,090 were discovered inside the luggage.

The passenger was fined there and then since it is illegal to enter, transit or depart from Malta with more than €10,000 in cash unless they are declared.

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124 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 141 recoveries

Feb 1 2021

Malta has registered 124 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 3,037 swab tests, while 141 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Sunday 31st January 2021, 27,759 vaccine doses were administered.

To date, Malta has registered 18,027 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 15,101 have recovered, 269 died and 2,657 are still active.

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AstraZeneca will be increasing vaccine production to EU countries

Feb 1 2021

AstraZeneca will be increasing its vaccine production by 30% for EU countries. The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen said in a Tweet that AstraZeneca will be sending 9 million additional doses and they will be delivered one week before schedule.

The company announced last week that only one-fourth of the doses will be delivered because of a problem at one of their factories. However, after extensive discussions, this has increased by 30%

Von Der Leyen also said that February and March are still expected to be periods of difficulty for the distribution of the vaccine.

Step forward on vaccines.@AstraZeneca will deliver 9 million additional doses in the first quarter (40 million in total) compared to last week’s offer & will start deliveries one week earlier than scheduled.

The company will also expand its manufacturing capacity in Europe.

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 31, 2021

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Qormi St. George Parish Church speaks out about request for the silencing of church bells

Feb 1 2021

St. George’s Church in Qormi has received a request to silence church bells between 10 PM in the evening and 6 AM the following morning.

The church has taken to Facebook to find support against the silencing of church bells. Church bells along with other elements of Maltese Culture are constantly being silenced and they are raising awareness about the fact that this is an important and integral part of Maltese Culture.

In a Facebook post, the association related to the church a petition has been shared in order to fight against this request. They’ve said that if this stops it will only be a matter of time before elements such as fireworks and marching bands will be silenced too.

https://www.facebook.com/KnisjaSanGorgQormi/posts/3926323710751779

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