WHO regional director impressed with Malta’s COVID-19 vaccine recipience

Dec 27 2020

Following the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in Malta, the World Health Organisation’s regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge stated that he was impressed with the amount of vaccines Malta managed to obtain as well as the immediacy of their arrival.

Well done to health leadership in Malta @chrisfearne @RobertAbela_MT for preparations to start #COVID19 vaccination tomorrow with strong support for uptake by highest political leaders 👏 https://t.co/Afap5N7XO0

— Hans Kluge (@hans_kluge) December 26, 2020

Kluge said that this exhibits the careful leadership and control the Maltese Government has conducted and reiterated how Chris Fearne himself paved the way for the conjoint European purchase of the vaccines during prior health discussions back in 2017.

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‘All I Want For Christmas’ breaks Spotify single-day streaming record

Dec 27 2020

Love it or hate, there’s really no avoiding Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas during the month of December and 26 years later, it’s still topping the charts.

The Christmas anthem has broken yet another Spotify streaming record with a whopping 17 million streams on Christmas day alone.

Looks like Carey’s Christmas banger is here to stay for years and years to come.

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“Don’t risk losing everything” PM Robert Abela appeals for caution as vaccines arrive

Dec 27 2020

As COVID-19 vaccines begin to arrive in Malta and the first Maltese receives a vaccine, Prime Minister Robert Abela stated that Malta is on the road to recovery.

While recent times may have been of “hope, courage and belief”, Abela appeals to the public to remain cautious, so we do not lose everything Malta has achieved over the past 10 months, calling the COVID-19 saga a “10-month marathon.”

Commending the respective authorities, the PM reported that the economic and health sectors have done well and reiterated that we will be receiving up to 20,000 vaccines a week on our road to recovery.

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84 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 118 recoveries

Dec 27 2020

Malta has registered 84 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,249 swab tests, while 118 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

From yesterday’s cases; 33 cases were family members of previously known cases, 15 cases were contact of positive work colleagues, 16 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases and 10 cases were from social gatherings with other positive cases.

To date, Malta has registered 12,325 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 10,668 have recovered, 210 died and 1,447 are still active.

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