Malta will begin distributing the COVID-19 vaccine on 27 December, Health Minister Chris Fearne announced.
“The plan is for all EU countries to vaccinate on the same day," Fearne told journalists after a press conference at Mater Dei Hospital on Thursday.
This follows an earlier announcement by European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen that "On 27, 28 and 29 December vaccination...
Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne inaugurated a new angiosuite at Mater Dei Hospital.
This angiosuite was made with an investment of € 400,000 which is part of an investment of € 5.5 million for the upgrade of new devices and equipment in the Department of Medical Imaging.
With this angiosuit, a number of specialized interventions can now be...
“As a ministry we are always looking to help and make the lives of our students’ parents easier, so we thought that even those parents who want to register their children for kindergarten should be helped, both because of this time of year. "COVID restrictions but also because we are on holidays", said the Minister for Education Justyne Caruana...
For the second consecutive year, the Ministry for Social Accommodation, in collaboration with the Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers, organised an international design competition inviting architects to submit a design for selected specialised housing projects.
This year’s projects benefitted from an investment of one million euro. In total, four new dilapidated government-owned properties are going to be retrofitted:
Dar...
“This is the first time such role will be filled after a public call issued by the Authority” - Minister Schembri
The Ministry for the Economy and Industry notes the issue of the Malta Gaming Authority call for applications for the vacant post of the role of Chief Executive Officer for the mentioned authority.
“This is the first time that the highest...
France's President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19.
In a statement the Elysée Palace said he will self-isolate for seven days and is still in charge of running the country.
France has just ended a six-week national lockdown.
Malta has the first element inscribed on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
This is Il-Ftira: the culinary art and culture of flattened sourdough bread in Malta. The approval for inscription took place during the 15th session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO which was held in Paris and transmitted online.
Minister for...
Minister for Research, Innovation and the Coordination of Post Covid-19 Strategy Owen Bonnici, together with Malta Council for Science and Technology Chairman Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, launched a programme of fifteen days of events for all the family, between the 18th of December and the 6th of January during the Christmas holidays at Esplora Interactive Science Centre.
The entrance will be free of...
An agreement was signed to help the families of the prisoners between the Ministry of Interior, National Security and Law Enforcement and the From Dark to Light Foundation. The agreement is the first of its kind and will help prisoners and their families face the challenges of a prison sentence.
At a news conference announcing the project, Interior, National Security...
From Monday 21st December to 4th January, children between the ages of two and eighteen can get a flu spray from the Health Centers around Malta and Gozo.
This is after Malta, for the first time, acquired twenty-five thousand spray cans so that children have the opportunity to be protected from the flu without the need for vaccination.
The chosen time...
