Study reveals vaccinated individuals could carry as much COVID-19 as others

Jul 31 2021

Scientists who have researched a recent significant COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts in the United States have concluded that vaccinated individuals who contracted what were called ‘breakthrough infections’ carried around the same amount of COVID-19 as unvaccinated individuals.

United States health officials published details of this research, ultimately contributing to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to once again recommend indoor mask-wearing in virus hotspots where the delta variant is surging.

Such findings may alter the thinking of how the virus is spread as the outbreak in Provincetown has so far registered over 900 cases with around 74% of them being fully vaccinated.

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Salvu Mallia states Labour should pay compensation to Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family

Jul 30 2021

Former PN candidate and public presenter Salvu Mallia posted to Facebook stating that the Labour Party should pay compensation to the late Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family. Failure to do so would mean that the Maltese public would be victimised for the second time. This follows a public inquiry’s release which led to Prime Minister Robert Abela formally apologising for shortcomings by the state in protecting the journalist from being targeted and eventually assassinated.

With the Prime Minister’s formal invitation to the journalist’s family yet to be accepted, Mallia reposted stating that an apology means guilt. This, according to Mallia, makes the Prime Minister as guilty as the ones who were in office beforehand. With some of Malta’s most powerful politicians and businessmen implicated in the murder, Mallia labelled the government as ‘murderers’ as the island’s ongoings make international headlines.

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Photo Source: Repubblika FB, Salvu Mallia FB

Malta no longer with Europe’s lowest COVID-19 death rate

Jul 30 2021

New data has revealed that Malta no longer has the lowest death rate amongst European countries. Marking the first time the island hasn’t registered a death rate of zero in weeks, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) revealed that Malta’s 14 day death notification rate per 1,000,000 inhabitants stood at 1.94. Being among the lowest in Europe, other countries such as Sweden, Austria, Denmark and Finland all had lower rates.

The infection rate in Malta continued to grow over the past few weeks, standing at 490.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Up 379 from last week, the island’s rate climbed up to fourth highest in Europe. With Malta classified on the ECDC’s red travel list, it is only outmatched by Cyprus, Spain and the Netherlands in terms of cases registered between July 12th and 25th.

Weekly hospitalisation also dropped slightly when comparing previous periods. The rate stands at 2.3 new admissions per 100,000 people. Authorities stated that the situation is being monitored to establish whether the spike in cases in the community is reflected in admissions total.

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Malta’s recent Daphne Caruana Galizia news makes international headlines

Jul 30 2021

Malta is currently making international headlines once more but this time it is not for positive reasons. After the Maltese government was deemed responsible to shoulder the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination, which occurred in October 2017, international headlines leapt at the news to detail the murder that shook the entire world.

With international news sites such as Euronews, Reuters and BBC news reporting on the case, Malta’s government was deemed responsible for the death of the journalist. The news sites reported how a public inquiry into the assassination of Caruana Galizia found that the state failed to recognise risks to the reporter’s life and subsequently take steps to avoid the assassination.

News portals also reported how Malta possessed a ‘culture of impunity [which] was created by the highest echelons of power within the government of the time.’ As the case continues to develop, the island has been spotlighted by a beacon of international news reports, and it doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon.

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