PM in quarantine as wife Lydia tests positive for Covid-19

Lydia Abela

Prime Minister Robert Abela has gone into quarantine after his wife Lydia tested positive for Covid-19.

The PM and daughter Georgia both tested negative.

On Facebook the PM wrote:

Marti Lydia rriżultat pożittiva għall-Covid-19 wara test li għamlet minħabba impenji li kellna fil-jiem li ġejjin.

Lydia tinsab tajba u ma kellha u m’għandha l-ebda sintomi. It-testijiet tiegħi u ta’ Giorgia Mae rriżultaw fin-negattiv.

Naturalment, dan ifisser li bdejna nosservaw perjodu ta’ kwarantina.

Bis-saħħa tat-teknoloġija se nkompli għaddej b’ħidmieti, inkluż b’laqgħat importanti li għandi fil-jiem li ġejjin.

Lydia is fine and she had no symptoms. My test results and those of Giorgia Mae came out negative. Naturally, this means that we have started observing a period of quarantine,” the Prime Minister said.