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Today's new COVID-19 case came through repatriation flight, Air Malta confirms
The aircraft has been sanitized and contact tracing is being effected.

Caroline Curmi

Air Malta has confirmed that today's new COVID-19 case came through a repatriation flight from Amsterdam.

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The case was described as an imported, sporadic and symptomatic one during today's Facebook announcement.

The airline recommends all its passengers take a swab test on their return to Malta and following this procedure, a passenger resulted as positive.

Air Malta states that the repatriation flight from Amsterdam was not one of the air bridge destinations which were opened on the 1st of July 2020.

Contact tracing is currently being held by health authorities and the aircraft has been sanitized, with all standard

3rd July 2020


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When she’s not having a quarter-life crisis, Caroline is either drawing in a café, frittering her salary on sushi or swearing at traffic in full-on Gozitan. There is also the occasional daytime drink somewhere in the equation. Or two. A creative must be allowed at least one vice.

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