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2 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 30 MAY 2021 NEWS Delivery fee of just €1 per day for orders up to 5 newspapers per address To subscribe 1. Email us your choice of newspapers, recipient's name, address, contact number to production @millermalta.com 2. Forward cheques payable to Miller Distributors Ltd on address: Miller House, Airport Way, Tarxien Road, Luqa LQA1814 Queries on other news- papers and magazines, production@ millermalta.com maltatoday Same-day delivery of your favourite Sunday newspaper Monday-Friday MaltaToday Midweek • €1 BusinessToday • €1.50 Sunday MaltaToday • €1.95 ILLUM • €1.25 Support your favourite newspaper with a subscription https://bit.ly/2X9csmr Cases 30,529 Active 67 Recoveries 30,043 Deaths 419 Vaccines 509,312 LATEST COVID-19 www.maltatoday.com.mt/covid19 Teaching English as a foreign language is a rewarding career! The ELT Council would like to remind everyone that the next TELT exam will be held on 17th July 2021. Applications are open from 31st May – 18th June 2021. Only online applications are accepted. Please visit https://myexams.gov.mt/applications/ to apply. We are pleased to offer both TELT and SEPTT exams free of charge throughout 2021. More information: www.eltcouncil.gov.mt • 2598 1241/2/3/4 • info.eltcouncil@gov.mt Have you ever considered teaching English as a foreign language? 4 JUNE Visits by relatives Visits at residential homes by relatives who have been fully vaccinated will be held every day between 10:30am and 11:30am and 5pm and 6:30pm. Each resident may be visited by one person at a time for 25 minutes. Visitors should still observe social distancing measures and wear masks. Non-vaccinated visitors or those who are not fully vaccinated yet will only be able to carry out visits in the common area, as is the current procedure. Visits at St Vincent de Paul home for the elderly will remain by appointment. Residents attending hospital appointments Fully-vaccinated residents who need to attend out- patient appointments at Mater Dei Hospital or other clinics will not have to quarantine when they return. They will be administered a PCR swab test as soon as they return to the home and staff will continue monitoring them for COVID-19 related symptoms. Non-vaccinated residents will have to quarantine for five days before a PCR swab test is carried out. New admissions New residents admitted to the residential homes will be required to have a PCR swab test if they are fully vaccinated. Non-vaccinated residents will need to quarantine for 14 days and get vaccinated. 8 JUNE Day centres will increase the number of seniors allowed to gather together from four to eight and staff members from two to three. 14 JUNE Outings Fully-vaccinated residents from residential homes are allowed to go out with their fully-vaccinated relatives. However, staff will continue monitoring the residents for any possible COVID-19 related symptoms on their return. Non-vaccinated residents can only meet with fully vaccinated relatives outside the homes. They will have to quarantine for five days on their return from an outing, after which a PCR swab test will be carried out. Medical appointments Residents can attend medical appointments outside the residential homes accompanied by their fully- vaccinated relatives. Timeline Lifting of restrictions at elderly homes KURT SANSONE RESIDENTS at elderly care homes will be allowed to go out with their fully-vac- cinated relatives from 14 June as more COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. Unveiling a series of restrictions on care homes that will be lifted in June, Senior Citizens Minister Michael Farrugia said vaccinations were key to a return to nor- mality. Residential homes have been subjected to strict restrictions after a surge of COV- ID-19 infections last September led to several deaths. With most elderly having received their vaccine, Farrugia is now appealing to their relatives to get vaccinated so that all restrictions can be lifted. Meanwhile, Malta's vaccination pro- gramme administered almost 510,000 by Friday, the last available data until yester- day. More than 200,000 people are now fully vaccinated with two doses or a single shot of the Janssen vaccine. On Saturday, the health authorities said that three new coronavirus cases were recorded in the previous 24 hours as the number of active cases stood at 67. There were no recorded deaths in the past 24 hours. Testing remained profuse with more than 2,000 COVID-19 tests carried out in the previous past 24 hours. Restrictions at elderly homes to be eased in June