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Police union says officers are not being given quarantine leave
The Police Officers Union says officers are also front liners and should benefit from quarantine leave like other government department employees if they test positive for COVID-19
15 January 2021, 4:08pm
by Laura Calleja
Police officers do not benefit from quarantine leave like other public sector employees if they test positive for COVID-19
The Police Officers Union has complained that officers are not being given quarantine leave like other public service employees, forcing them to use their sick leave when testing positive for COVID-19.
Posting to Facebook, the union said it had once again emailed the Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri to ask that officers who tested positive for COVID-19 are given quarantine leave, like other government workers.
Those planning on getting pregnant in the coming months should wait two months after getting vaccinated against COVID-19, Charmaine Gauci said on Thursday.
The Superintendent of Public Health joined journalist Claire Farrugia for the programme Ask Charmaine on Times of Malta’s Facebook page, as 15 COVID patients are being cared for at the Intensive Treatment Unit.
Answering readers’ questions about COVID-19, Prof Gauci said that vaccines pass through clinical trials and, so far, pregnant women have not been included in these studies. While the vaccine producers are not saying that people should postpone their pregnancy, including through IVF, some countries such as the UK and Malta, are urging women to wait two months after taking the jab to get pregnant.
LA VALLETTA (MALTA) (ITALPRESS/MNA) – The variant of the Covid-19 originally found in the United Kingdom had been identified in Malta. Maltese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne has confirmed the arrival of the UK Covid-19 variant to Malta. This was also confirmed by the Superintendent of Public Health, Prof. Charmaine Gauci, who announced that three cases have been found in Malta.
She explained that 2 cases were foreigners, after travelling to Malta from the United Kingdom. The third case, however, is a 75-year-old Maltese woman. Investigations are ongoing as to how she contracted this strain.
The variant is about 70% more contagious than the original version of the virus but whoever is infected will have the same effects as one would have if infected with the original virus.
Three cases of the more contagious variant of COVID-19 have been registered in Malta, health authorities have confirmed.
Two of the new infections are linked to people who arrived on the island from the UK, where it was first identified, while a third case is still being investigated.
Health Minister Chris Fearne first revealed the new variant had appeared in Malta in a tweet on Wednesday morning and Superintendent of Public Health Charmaine Gauci gave further details in a newsconference in the afternoon.
The variant, first reported earlier this month by the UK, where it has been rapidly circulating, is said to be up to 70 per cent more transmissible.