Doctors in Malta threaten strike unless musical festivals are canceled

Maltese doctors and nurses today threatened to go on strike because holding four major music festivals on the small Mediterranean island could be a major threat to the spread of the Coronavirus.

Events, including the BPM Electronic Music Festival from 11 September to 13 September, are expected to draw thousands of foreign tourists in August and September.

The Malta Medical Association (MAM) has said it will close all clinics and advise doctors to postpone all ambulance interventions in Montenegrin public hospitals if the government does not postpone festivals.

The MUMN union of nurses and midwives on Monday gave an ultimatum to the government to cancel the events.

MUMN has accused Prime Minister Robert Abel of choosing “greedy entrepreneurs” for the lives of vulnerable people.

Pharmacists have also warned strike if festivals are not cancelled.

Malta eased restrictions imposed by the coronary between June and July, and Abela said the country was “open to business”.

However, the number of infected ones increased after holiday visitors, who lasted the entire weekend, were confirmed to have coronarys.

The number of active cases in the country rose from 10 to 150 in the country on Friday, and more than half of the infected -- 85 of them -- are sea-saved migrants from Malta.

Health Minister Chris Fear announced new restrictions on events of more than 100 people Thursday, but new regulations did not please the festival's opponents.