Prof. Victor Grech is well known as a paediatric cardiologist and a highly respected professional in the country. Such a profession would ordinarily occupy almost every living moment of one’s existence. He talks to
Joseph Agius about what makes his world go round, once away from the daily human drama at Mater Dei Hospital.
I distinctly remember your great interest in the sciences especially astronomy and biology during our years as schoolmates at St Aloysius College. Was your choice of profession, initially as a medical doctor, dictated by the necessities of the time? Was it a heartfelt, pondered decision to pursue medicine?
COVID-19 has made 2020 one of the deadliest years in Malta’s recent history, with deaths rising by a monthly average of over 12 per cent above the figures
Over one in 10 current COVID-19 cases are children, with the highest number in the 11-17 age group, prompting Church and independent schools to hold out while monitoring the situation closely.
Among the active cases, 83 children are aged up to five years, 85 are between six and 10 and 175 are in the 11-17 age group, adding up to around 12 per cent, according to the Superintendent of Public Health, Charmaine Gauci, who was on Tuesday taking questions from Times of Malta readers.
Last September, before the opening of schools, less than five per cent of those with COVID-19 were children.
The number of infected children was also highlighted in August, when they made up around 1.5 per cent of active cases.
MaltaToday s most read stories for 2020
From the coronavirus pandemic to Keith Schembri’s court testimony, from the sudden death of a Naxxar teenager to a double murder in Sliema, these are the top stories for 2020, according to MaltaToday s readers
24 December 2020, 3:00pm
by Kurt Sansone
Keith Schembri s testimony, Miriam Pace s death in a house collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic were among the stories most read on MaltaToday
In a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic it is no surprise that 13 of the top 20 most read stories on MaltaToday were COVID-19 related.
But even if COVID-19 was a constant in our lives throughout 2020, other news events did manage to gain readers’ attention.
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