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WEDNESDAY • 22 APRIL 2020 • ISSUE 684 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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OPINION
Coronavirus Crucial 10 days to
assess spread before decision
to start lifting restrictions
New evidence
contradicts
allegations
that soldiers
sabotaged
migrant
dinghy
KURT SANSONE
THE next 10 days are crucial to deter-
mine whether the government will start
to lift some of the coronavirus restric-
tions, MaltaToday has learnt.
The health authorities will continue
monitoring the spread of COVID-19 to
determine whether the virus is under
control before suggesting any changes to
the restrictive regime in place.
"The decision to start lifting restrictions
is not an easy one to take because there
is the fear of a second wave of infections,
which is why the health authorities are
proceeding with caution before giving
the green light for some measures to be
eased," sources close to gov-
ernment said.
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Beyond
survival
MATTHEW VELLA
PRIME Minister Robert Abela has resurrect-
ed a proposal that hunting grounds in l-Aħrax
tal-Mellieħa, and Miżieb, be turned over to
hunters under a formal management agree-
ment.
MaltaToday is informed the proposal was
floated during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
No resistance to the proposal was raised.
A government source said the proposal was
meant to formalise claims the main hunting lob-
by FKNK has over the lands, which they occupy
during the spring and autumn hunting seasons.
But these are public lands to which citizens
also demand their enjoyment, without the risk
of being run off the grounds by
hunters.
KURT SANSONE
NEW evidence handed over to the
magistrate probing soldiers accused
of sabotaging a migrant dinghy sug-
gests the army personnel
acted correctly at all
times.
Abela mulls turning
over Mizieb to hunters
