4 persons were each fined €100 for breaking the 3-person rule and two snack bars owners were fined €3,000 each after they were found to be open and serving clients.

The government last week banned gatherings of more than three people as part of the measures being taken to stop the spread of Covid-19.

In the meantime, more than ten thousand inspections on those persons who had to observe obligatory quarantine have been conducted from when inspections started.

239 inspections were carried out over the last 24 hours, and a person breaching obligatory quarantine was found.

Two snack bars, one in Żejtun, and the other in Ħal Għaxaq, were caught open and serving clients, in breach of regulations to limit the spread of Covid-19.

The owners were each fined €3,000.

In the last 24 hours, more than 880 inspections on food and drinks establishments in the Maltese islands were carried out, so that from when regulations were laid out, more than 18,400 inspections have now been carried out.