Malta among highest ranking EU member in healthy life expectancy

Apr 4 2021

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne took to Facebook to express his pride in the Maltese Health System as Malta scores the highest in healthy life expectancy in the EU. Healthy life years refers to ‘the number of years that a person is expected to live without an activity limitation (disability).’

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The life years for women in EU seem to be highest in Malta among EU countries, with an average age of 73.4 years, followed by Sweden and Ireland. For men, Malta only follows Sweden at second place with 71.9, with Norway in third place. Life expectancy for women in the EU was on average 5.5 years longer than that for men.

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Eurovision to allow spectators for COVID-19 party trials

Apr 4 2021

The 2021 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, set to be held in Rotterdam, will be allowing up to 3,500 spectators to enjoy the festival live. This will be part of a trial to see what the possibilities of attending festivals and parties during the COVID-19 would be. A test party has already taken place in a small town called Biddinguizen, which saw 3,000 people attending. They all had to present negative COVID-19 tests and wore movement tracking tests.

The Eurovision song contest might be applying some of these same tactics in order to allow spectators to enjoy the spectacle live. With Destiny performing her song Je Me Casse in the first semi-final of the contest, she and other contestants might in fact be performing in front of a live audience for the first time since COVID-19 struck.

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Schools among first to open as part of government COVID-19 re-opening plan

Apr 4 2021

ILLUM newspaper has revealed that the government, with advice from Health Authorities, will be announcing the re-opening plans for several institutions, markets and activities. The opening will happen gradually and spread over a number of weeks. Several sources informed the newspaper that the first to open will be schools, followed by retail outlets and businesses related to beauty. The openings will be accompanied by several safety measures that will be announced by the government.

Restaurants and snack-bars might not be among the businesses that open on 12th April 2021. They will open later this month or early in May should the situation with COVID-19 not worsen – such as the introduction of new variants. Schools seem to be the first to open due to their closure bringing difficulties in learning and parents who cannot go to work due to having to stay at home.

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62 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 114 recoveries

Apr 3 2021

Malta has registered 62 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,289 swab tests, while 114 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Friday 2nd April 2021, 209,065 vaccine doses were administered of which 57,123 were 2nd doses.

To date, Malta has registered 29,189 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 28,159 have recovered, 397 died and 633 are still active.

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