Higher secondary student protest cancelled as lectures move online

Mar 9 2021

After students from Giovanni Curmi Higher Secondary School (GCHSS) were set to protest on Friday by not attending classes, a letter issued by the Head of School confirmed that the school will in fact be shifting to online classes until the end of the 2nd term (Tuesday 30th March 2021). The students promptly cancelled the protest as GCHSS now joins the ranks of schools like Junior College in resorting to online lessons.

This decision came after students even took to social media to express their concerns that GCHSS was not making the necessary shift to online lessons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous measures issued by the school were banning sports activities and enforcing mask wearing at all times.

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Malta with lowest percentage of women in parliament

Mar 9 2021

Eurostat has shown that Maltese national parliament has the lowest percentage of women, with only 13% if MPs in Malta in 2020. The share contrasts with the amount of women MPs in European Union, which averages at 33%. This makes 1 in 3 MPs women on average in EU. Malta shares this percentage with Hungary.

Maltese lack of women MPs is also present in national government with only 8% in positions of senior and junior ministers. Greece and Estonia also have a low share in government, with the highest being Finland with a 55% representation.

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Malta has surpassed 100,000 vaccines administered

Mar 9 2021

In the quest to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and all its variants, Malta has surpassed the 100,000 landmark of vaccines administered with a total of 101,776. The vaccine, as previously stated by Fearne, is our main line of defence against the virus, despite the several measures still in place.

The vaccine entered the field of play on Sunday 27th December 2020, with nurse Rachel Grech being the first Maltese person to receive the dose. Malta has a total of 3,035 active cases as of 9th March 2021, with 21,477 recoveries and 335 total deaths.

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248 COVID-19 cases registered with 390 recoveries

Mar 9 2021

Malta has registered 248 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 4,470 swab tests, while 390 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Monday 8th March 2021, 101,776 vaccine doses were administered of which 34,181 were 2nd doses.

To date, Malta has registered 24,847 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 21,477 have recovered, 335 died and 3,035 are still active.

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