Malta has stopped all travel links with Italy, its nearest neighbor and main source of food and other essentials, after confirming its fourth coronavirus case since Saturday, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Tuesday.
He told a news conference that all flights between the island and Italy had been suspended immediately and that a daily ferry service between Malta and the Italian island of Sicily, 93 km (58 miles) away, would now carry only medicine and cargo.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has put all of Italy on lockdown from Tuesday until next month in an unprecedented move to try to beat Europe's worst outbreak of coronavirus.
