Malta will not administer Johnson & Johnson vaccine following blood clot concerns

Apr 14 2021

Following reports of blood clots and the USA halting the vaccine out of an abundance of caution, it seems Malta will be following in these footsteps as it will not be using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Superintendent for Public Health Professor Charmaine Gauci confirmed this in an interview with a Times of Malta journalist.

The one shot vaccine will be halted by not just Malta but the UE along with the US due to 6 cases of blood clots resulted from 6.8 million doses administered. AstraZeneca will still be administered. She also stated that Malta will not give the option for people to choose to take the second shot from a different company, as did Germany.

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The future is now: NYPD robodog goes viral and freaks people out

Apr 14 2021

Maybe Black Mirror was really onto something. A viral video of the New York Police Department’s new robodog is freaking people out. The video begins with police officers exiting a building with a man in handcuffs, only to be followed by a blue four-legged robot called Digidog slowly prancing its way alongside officers.

The person recording the footage exclaimed ‘I’ve never seen nothing like this before in my life.’ Up close and personal? – maybe not. But its definitely something reminiscent of futuristic media. Commentators were genuinely freaked out by the dog. Some stated ‘This is very unsettling for me. Why does it look like that?’ Another exclaimed ‘Can we not do this right now. Who in their right mind thought this would be a good idea just fresh out of 2020 like this.’

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Gozo Fast Ferry Ltd to provide high-speed service between the islands

Apr 14 2021

Gozo Fast Ferry Ltd announced today that it will be operating a fast-ferry service which will run between Gozo and Valletta starting June. Two state-of-the-art high-speed passenger craft will be used by the company, backed by Bianchi Group and Merrill Investments.

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Transport Malta has been notified of this service after the market was liberalised. Each vessel is allegedly capable of comfortably carrying 300 passengers per trip and will make the journey between Mgarr, Gozo, to the Grand Harbour in Valletta in less than 45 minutes. Schedule and pricing details will be announced in due course.

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58 COVID-19 cases registered with 41 recoveries

Apr 14 2021

Malta has registered 58 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,001 swab tests, while 41 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Wednesday 14th April 2021, 254,885 vaccine doses were administered of which 76,593 were 2nd doses.

To date, Malta has registered 29,778 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 28,797 have recovered, 403 died and 578 are still active.

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