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4 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 18 NOVEMBER 2020 NEWS Wednesday 18 th November 2020 The Other Brewery Co. Limited 17, Santa Maria FL 3 Triq il- Ward Madliena Swieqi SWQ 1121 Malta MT24750012 Micro-Brewery & Bar Set up The Other Brewery & Co Limited is requesting tenders for the supply and installation of the below activity in relation to the construction of a Micro- Brewery. TOBCO 100 – Supply and installation of 10 hector litre Brewhouse and plant The above tender will open from today, Wednesday 18 th November 2020 and all offers shall be returned by Wednesday 2 nd December 2020 at noon. Any clarifications should be sent by not later than Wednesday 25 th November 2020. To participate in the requests for quotations above, an email should be sent to sebastien@theotherbreweryco.com. KARL AZZOPARDI 11.5% of students have failed to justify their absenteeism when not attending school, a parlia- mentary question has revealed. In a reply to a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Clyde Puli, Education Minister Owen Bonnici said 3,558 students did not attend school without having their absence excused. The statistics presented in par- liament were based on attendance figures for Monday 16 November, and give a snapshot of the situa- tion in government schools. From a population of 30,925 stu- dents, 22,698 attended school. 15.1% were absent for justified and medical reasons. Notably, 45.19% of Virtual School students did not attend lessons on the day. This means that 216 students from a cohort of 478 failed to turn up. With Malta's schools grouped in a college system, St George Pre- ca College had the highest unex- cused absentee rate. 24.08% of students failed to turn up, with only 60.98% attending school. From a college population of 2,176, 14.93% had their absence excused. St Gorg Preca College's Ham- run Secondary School registered 45.2% absenteeism on Monday, with only 51.41% of students at- tending school. The school has a student population of 354. With only a student population of 16, St Gorg Preca College Msi- da Educational Hub had an absen- tee rate of 56.25%. St Nicholas College had the low- est percentage of absent students among the colleges, with only 5.24% skipping school without a valid reason. With a population of 2,291, 80.01% of students attend- ed school, while 14.75 had an ex- cused absence. The Gozo College registered an absenteeism of 7.56%. 15.12% of students also did not attend after presenting an excused absence. With a population of 2,222, the Gozo college registered an attend- ance of 76.87%. Despite the low absentee rate e, Gozo College Gharb Primary has an absentee rate of 23.08%. Maria Regina College registered an absentee rate of 9.44%, with 77.42% attending and the rest hav- ing a justified excuse. The college has the largest cohort of students at 5,039. St Benedict College had a low- est absentee rate, registering only 8.65% unjustified absenc- es. 74.76% of students attended, while the rest presented justified excuses for skipping school. 10.54% of St Clare College stu- dents were absent on the day, with an attendance of 74.93%. St Ignatius College had an ab- sentee rate of 10.05%. 18.66% of students also filed an excused ab- sence. St Margaret College registered an absentee rate of 16.38% on Monday from a student popu- lation of 2,289. 67,15% attended school. 69.77% of St Theresa College students attended school, with an absentee rate of 10.19%. St Thomas Moore College reg- istered an absentee percentage of 11.31, with 77.04 of 4,543 students attending. Maria Efimova MALTA registered 110 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the Health Authorities announced. Information released by the Health Ministry on Facebook shows that there were 161 recov- eries, bringing the total of active cases to 2,097. Yesterday's cases are still being investigated but from the cases discovered, 26 were family members of previously known cases, nine were contacts of positive work colleagues, four were direct contacts with positive cases and two were from social gatherings. On Monday, three more persons died of COV- ID-19, bringing the death toll up to 101. 2,345 swabs were conducted in the last 24 hours, with a grand total of 388,663 swabs hav- ing been conducted since the start of the pan- demic Malta has registered 8,247 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in March. #KunResponsabbli Uża l-maskra Aħsel idejk Żomm id-distanza Imxi ma' dawn it-3 passi C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Full Page Advert Newspaper MLT&ENG 3 Steps COVID19 2020 Final.pdf 2 04/06/2020 08:33:10 COVID-19: 110 new cases, 161 recoveries recorded 11.5% of students failed to turn up for school on Monday, PQ shows