Public Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci insisted on Wednesday that COVID-19 restrictions need to be lifted gradually on the basis of case numbers, the situation at hospital and experience learned abroad.
Questioned on Times of Malta’s Ask Charmaine programme, particularly on the continued use of face masks, Gauci said the authorities are taking a
paced approach and will continue to lift measures as the case numbers stay down.
It was good news, she said, that some agencies abroad were saying that masks did not need to be worn between fully vaccinated persons, but in Malta, herd immunity had not been achieved yet. A large section of the population has still not been vaccinated.