A year since Malta’s first case of reported COVID-19, healthcare officials fear now is the most “delicate and worrying” phase as new cases reach record highs just as many start to get restless after 12 months of the pandemic.
“Had you asked me a year ago whether we would still be grappling with the pandemic, I would have said absolutely not,” ITU specialist Joseph Paul Vella told
Times of Malta's 'People of the Pandemic' documentary. “But the reality is that not only are we still grappling with the pandemic, but this is possibly the most delicate moment.”
Looking back, Vella admitted he was rather sceptical at first and did not think the virus would wreak such havoc. A year later, he describes how together with his colleagues he is now not only tired after working on the frontlines non-stop but disappointed that some people were still not taking the matter seriously.