{"id":14805,"date":"2020-07-28T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/national-band-club-association-calls-for-maturity-and-prudence-during-village-feasts\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T11:16:00","slug":"national-band-club-association-calls-for-maturity-and-prudence-during-village-feasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/national-band-club-association-calls-for-maturity-and-prudence-during-village-feasts\/","title":{"rendered":"National Band Club Association calls for \u2018maturity and prudence\u2019 during village feasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Band Club Association calls for \u2018maturity and prudence\u2019 during village feasts<\/p>\n<p>Malta&rsquo;s National Band Club Association (Ghaqda Nazzjonali Kazini tal-Banda) has called on its members to practice caution when it comes to organising activities and celebratory activities.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post they said that during these times it is important for everyone to hold public health as a priority and hold back from doing anything that could meddle with the hard work of the health authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For this reason, the union, as it has already done, is appealing for a level of maturity and prudence when it comes to activities relating to village feasts. The union encouraged all its members to practice great caution when organising such activities,&rdquo; its statement read.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is an exceptional year and this is why village feats celebrations should reflect the situation we are in at the moment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The call comes after <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-27\/local-news\/Public-health-alert-after-Covid-19-case-attended-Santa-Venera-feast-6736225536\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a public health alert was issued because a person who tested positive for Covid-19 attended activities at the Santa Venera village feast last Wednesday and Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All those who attended this feast on the aforementioned days have been told to call 111 to arrange a swab test.<\/p>\n<p>Many have called for mass events &ndash; such as feast marches &ndash; to be banned after cases of the virus spiked in recent days. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement yesterday, the Curia reminded that celebratory activities such as feast marches do not fall under its remit.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-28\/local-news\/National-Band-Club-Association-calls-for-maturity-and-prudence-during-village-feast-celebrations-6736225567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Band Club Association calls for \u2018maturity and prudence\u2019 during village feasts<\/a><br \/>\n{$excerpt:n}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Band Club Association calls for \u2018maturity and prudence\u2019 during village feasts Malta&rsquo;s National Band Club Association (Ghaqda Nazzjonali Kazini tal-Banda) has called on its members to practice caution when it comes to organising activities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-14805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}