Real Madrid have been handed a surprising defeat by Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk in their first match of the Champions League.
This comes ahead of their El Clasico match with Barcelona on Saturday.
Shakhtar played with 10 players less due to COVID-19 but rose to the occasion with 3 goals within the first half.
Bashir Abdulahi Ahmed, an attempted burglar, was arrested by a policeman after he was caught drunkenly trying to rob his house in St. Julian’s.
The burglar was arrested immediately, eventually being accused of attempted aggravated theft, violent resist of arrest, attacking an official as well as being publicly drunk and disorderly, amongst other charges.
Malta has registered 111 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,951 swab tests, while 53 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; 14 cases were family members of previously known cases, 10 cases were contact of positive work colleagues, 13 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases, 1 case was from social gatherings with other positive cases and 2 cases were imported.
To date, Malta has registered 5,137 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 3.384 have recovered, 53 died and 1,704 are still active.
