In the next few hours, 50% of Maltese residents eligible for the Covid-19 booster will be vaccinated. This milestone was marked by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne during a visit toMalta’s largest vaccination hub, Gateway, at the University of Malta.
“We will be able to achieve the ambitious goal of vaccinating half of the adult population with the booster by the end of the year, which means that we can now begin to reap the benefits of the quarantine booster,” said the Deputy Prime Minister.
He explained that from Monday, 3 January 2022, COVID-19 positive people who are vaccinated with the booster will be obliged to do a quarantine period of ten days instead of 14 days, until in the last three days of quarantine these individuals have no symptoms.
This is while people who have been in contact with a positive person, ie “primary contacts”, and who are in possession of a valid vaccine certificate, can continue to use the “early release” system, ie to terminate. the obligatory quarantine seven days after the last contact with the positive person, after making a rapid test resulting in the negative.
Also on Monday, people considered to be “secondary contacts”, ie people living in the same residence with people who have been in direct contact with a positive person, do not have to be quarantined if they are vaccinated with the booster.
The Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that while the vaccination rate is currently very good, in order to increase access to the vaccine, from Monday the vaccination centers will increase from 7 to 24 centers around Malta. and Gozo.
Deputy Prime Minister Fearne urged anyone over the age of 18 to apply for the booster on vaccin.gov.mt.
