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WEDNESDAY • 3 MARCH 2021 • ISSUE 728 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGES 1 & 11
RECORD COVID-19 CASES IN 1 DAY
336
• Surge in new infections
shows no sign of
abating, with third
record in a week
• Nurses' union says
Mater Dei Hospital has
reached it's "breaking
point" with limited beds
available in the ITU
and other wards
• Health minister
claims Opposition MP
asked him to jump
COVID-19 vaccine
queue
PAGES 2 & 3
PAGE 11
Editorial
Time to
consider
a soft
lockdown
THERE is no other way to look at it:
Malta has now entered a third wave of
the COVID-19 pandemic; and the same
strategies we used in the past, can no
longer be expected to work today.
Among those strategies was a rigor-
ous method of contact-tracing, which
aimed to identify and isolate carriers to
prevent the virus from spreading.
As virologist Chris Barbara had aptly
summed it up: "the more people you
swab now, the less cases of COVID-19
you will have in the next weeks, sim-
ply because you would have removed
more infected fish from the pool, which
would otherwise have infected more
fish...
