Malta’s entertainment industry reacts to ‘insulting’ events plans

Jun 11 2021

Following today’s 12:30 press conference regarding the gradual reopening of Malta’s social and cultural events, Malta’s Entertainment and Culture Campaign ‘Restart’ reacted to the less-than-satisfactory measures.

The campaign’s social media page called today’s measures ‘an insult’ to their industry and highlighted that despite Malta’s Herd Immunity, 0 patients in ICU, 64 active cases and 0.2% infection rate, a decent road map has yet to be announced.

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Posted by Restart on Friday, 11 June 2021

It was announced that as of 5th July, the aforementioned events will operate on a seated basis to a maximum capacity of 100 people, which capacity will be raised to 200 on 2nd August if the situation permits.

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Chris Fearne addresses vaccine certificate discrimination claims

Jun 11 2021

During today’s public health conference which addressed the future of social and cultural events in Malta, the authorities were asked about claims of discrimination with regards to the vaccine certificate and events in Malta.

Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne stated that establishments like restaurants and bars are currently open for everyone however, in the face of the events announced today, he highlighted that Malta will either open with these limited measures or not open at all.

The government has been highlighted that the vaccine itself and the vaccine certificate are a primary tool in Malta’s endeavours against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Weekly COVID-19 bulletin to be halted for the time being

Jun 11 2021

During a conference held today regarding the restart of social and cultural events in Malta, Health Minister Chris Fearne revealed the future of social and cultural events in Malta, amongst others the restart of seated events with a maximum capacity of 100 people as from 5th July.

During her discourse, Superintendent for Public Health Prof. Charmaine Gauci announced that the weekly COVID-19 bulletin held on Friday will be put to a halt for the time being as the country is slowly recovering from the effects of the pandemic.

Prof. Gauci stated that the Health Authorities will remain at the public’s disposal and will see to any questions, issues or inquiries they may have.

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2 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 5 recoveries

1 COVID-19 case registered with 2 recoveries

Jun 11 2021

Malta has registered 2 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 1,817 swab tests, while 5 patients have recovered. No deaths were registered in the past 24 hours. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Thursday 10th June 2021, 576,256 vaccine doses were administered of which 334,367 were 1st doses. 251,553 people are currently fully vaccinated.

To date, Malta has registered 30,571 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 30,096 have recovered, 419 died and 64 are still active.

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