These are the main news reported by the leading Maltese news portals:
“COVID-19 almost killed me.” These were Matthias Kentzia’s first words, a young Maltese man who ended up in Spain’s intensive care unit after becoming infected with Coronavirus. “I’ve just spent two weeks in a hospital bed in Spain, fighting the Coronavirus and pneumonia that,” Matthias said on social media. He said that despite being 27 years old, and healthy, with no underlying health conditions, he was almost paralysed with fever and needed oxygen day and night. Source: TVM
Malta has registered 13 new cases of coronavirus overnight, bucking the low trend of recent days. The total of Covid-19 infections now stands at 169. Two people were transferred out of intensive therapy but two remain, including a 72-year-old man who is on a ventilator. Source: MaltaToday
Trees lining Mdina Road in Attard are being chopped down as part of the Central Link road project, with virtually empty roads allowing workers to speed up the process. Workers equipped with chainsaws were seen cutting up trunks and branches as others cleared the debris from a section of the road between the Mrieħel bypass and San Anton Gardens junction on Tuesday morning. Source: Times of Malta
LPG cylinders will cost less, the energy ministry said in a statement, highlighting that the reduction announced by the regulator will mean that 12kg cylinders will cost €15 instead of €16. Source: The Malta Independent
The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry has continued to gather information from all sectors of business and held virtual discussions with a team of 30 expert CEOs from the world of finance, banking and innovation and is currently finalising a new position which is to be presented to the government to continue addressing businesses and the economy. Source: Newsbook
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