October 19, 2022

WHO: COVID-19 Still an International Emergency

The World Health Organization said Wednesday it is too early to lift the highest-level alert for the COVID-19 crisis, with the pandemic remaining a global health emergency despite recent progress. The WHO’s emergency committee on COVID-19 met last week and concluded that the pandemic still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), a status it declared back in January 2020. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Wednesday that he agreed with the committee’s advice. “The committee emphasized the need to strengthen surveillance and expand access to tests, treatments and vaccines for those most at risk,” he said,

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WHO: Latest Ebola Cases Not Linked to Current Patients

  The eight most recent Ebola cases reported during the outbreak in Uganda have no known links with current patients, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, raising concerns about the spread of the deadly disease. In a briefing, WHO said initial investigations into the cases by Uganda’s Ministry of Health had found they were not contacts of people already known to have Ebola. “We remain concerned that there may be more chains of transmission and more contacts than we know about in the affected communities,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. There have been 60 confirmed and 20

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THE MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS AND TRADE “We must act with shared commitment to addressing energy prices for the benefit of all citizens and businesses” – Minister Ian Borg at the General Affairs Council

​ “We must act with shared commitment to address and bring energy prices down for the benefit of all our citizens and businesses”. This was reiterated by the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg at the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg when preparing for the meeting of the European Council to be held later this week.​​ Minister Ian Borg said, “Since we are amongst the group that has been calling for the introduction of a gas price cap, we will be carefully assessing the details of the Commission’s proposals. The package needs to have an impact

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THE MINISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND ENTERPRISE Inauguration of Ġnien Rnella – Malta’s first carbon-neutral garden

An open space for everyone to enjoy   The Environment Ministry regenerated the abandoned site of a former military cemetery in Kalkara to create the first carbon-neutral garden in Malta.   Miriam Dalli, Minister for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise, and Wayne Aquilina, Kalkara’s mayor, inaugurated Rnella Garden on Wednesday morning, the 19th of October 2022.   With the assistance of Ambjent Malta and Parks Malta, the Ministry equipped this garden with innovative environmental technologies, including renewable energy installations and water conservation systems, whilst adopting other sustainable landscaping practices.   Minister Miriam Dalli explained that, as a carbon-neutral garden, this new

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