The obligation to present a vaccine certificate in order to access restaurants, snack bars and clubs will be lifted as from Monday, the 7th of February.

While the mandatory use of the vaccine certificate to enter bars, cinemas, theatres, gyms and fitness centres, pools, spas and saunas will be abolished from the 14th of February.

This was announced by Minister for Health Chris Fearne during a parliamentary session, where he explained that the release of these measures is a result of the good booster intake rate. Explaining that 75% of the adult population has been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Chris Fearne said that this is only the first part of the government’s “exit plan” and therefore for the time being organised events will remain seated and will remain with the obligation to present a vaccine certificate.

Dr Fearne went on to say that so far, the seven-day quarantine for primary contacts, ie those who had contact with a positive person, prevented the further spread of Covid, so much so that from the test carried out at the end of quarantine it turned out that one person in seven tested positive.

However, he said that as the number of cases in the community continues to decline, it will be possible to lower the quarantine for primary contacts to five days, and eventually remove it altogether.

Chris Fearne reiterated that the booster is having a positive effect on Maltese health and society and therefore appealed to those who have not yet been vaccinated to attend one of the vaccine walk-in clinics or apply for an appointment at vaccin.gov.mt

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