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Reducing Quarantine Discussions Underway As COVID-19 Wage Supplement Extended Till End Of January In Malta

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The COVID-19 wage supplement for employees working in sectors hit by the pandemic will be extended until the end of January, Enterprise Minister Miriam Dalli announced today.

Addressing a press conference, Dalli said the government was evaluating how its pandemic assistance could be adapted going forward. 

The companies hit worst by the pandemic will continue to receive a wage supplement of €800 a month for every full-time worker. 

The announcement comes a day after the Nationalist Party called on the government to extend the wage supplement till the end of March, with Dalli saying that the government would act in the same way it had last year, and would extend the programme as required. 

The minister noted that the government had so far invested €653 million in wage supplements to around 105,000 employees across 17,500 businesses. 

Malta is currently going through its largest ever surge in COVID-19 cases which has seen many in the hospitality and catering industries take a hit at a time when they were counting on business to be booming. 

The large spike in active cases has also seen thousands of people placed in mandatory quarantine, causing havoc to many businesses across the country, who have been left without enough people to operate. 

The Nationalist Party, Chamber of Commerce and Malta Association for Public Health Medicine have all called for a relaxing of quarantine rules. 

Asked whether this was being considered by the government, Dalli said that talks were underway with the health authorities while appealing to the public to take the COVID-19 vaccine booster shot. 

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Yannick joined Lovin Malta in March 2021 having started out in journalism in 2016. He is passionate about politics and the way our society is governed, and anything to do with numbers and graphs. He likes dogs more than he does people.

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