Malta: Almost 17,000 businesses apply for Covid-19 wage supplement, 77,000 jobs saved – Silvio Schembri

A total of 16,970 businesses have applied for aid under government’s Covid-19 wage supplement mechanism, meaning that some 77,000 workers have been saved from redundancy so far, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri announced on Friday.

In a press conference on the take-up of the government’s economic measures – which will be a weekly occurrence – Schembri listed statistics about the various economic measures which the government have implemented so far in response to the crisis brought about by the spread of Covid-19 in Malta. Source: The Malta Independent

Updated 17:15pm