The National Budget for 2021 is set to start tonight at 6.30PM, with measures to be announced in Parliament.
This will be Prime Minister Robert Abela’s first budget. He had stated that this budget is set to generate hope and courage for the Maltese population while incentivising consumption, with one of the most anticipated measures being the second set of government vouchers.
Malta Daily will be providing live updates during the course of the event.
As COVID-19 cases continue to surge and countries are imposing more and more measures and lockdown situations, the total amount of COVID-19 cases around the world surpasses 40 million.
From this amount, as collected by Johns Hopkins University, more than 1.1 million virus deaths have been registered, with the highest number of cases emerging from the U.S., India and Brazil at 8.1 million, 7.5 million and 5.2 million respectively.
The World Health Organisation reported that last week, Europe had registered a record-high number of cases with nearly 700,000, with the region accounting for an approximate third of cases worldwide.
Following this afternoon’s report of 109 COVID-19 cases overnight, a total of 300,326 swab tests have been administered since the beginning of pandemic in Malta.
The island currently stands at a total of 1,450 active cases following the Government’s recently imposition of new measures.
Malta has registered 109 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,561 swab tests, while 6 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.
Today’s cases are still being investigated. From yesterday’s cases; 40 cases were family members of previously known cases, 17 cases were contact of positive work colleagues, 7 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases, 6 cases were from social gatherings with other positive cases and 2 cases were imported.
To date, Malta has registered 4,737 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 3,242 have recovered, 45 died and 1,450 are still active.
