Watch: Ministers at crowded Żebbuġ bar during COVID-19 rules breach
Transport Minister Ian Borg and Environment Minister Aaron Farrugia have been pictured in a band club at the weekend while a series of COVID-19 rules appeared to be breached. Photos and video footage sent to Times of Malta showed a packed social club in Żebbuġ as the locality celebrated its annual feast of St Philip. Revellers donning the traditional green T-shirts used to mark the feast could be seen drinking and singing in sizeable groups in violation of social distancing rules. Some lifted friends onto their shoulders while chants rang throughout the club. Borg was among those present and can be seen at the back of the crowd in the footage, watching on. He appears to be one of the only people in the room wearing a mask. Contacted for comment, the minister said he had observed the public health rules. "I observed the rules and visited clubs with other MPs, such as Opposition leader Bernard Grech whom I met and spoke with in the same club," he said. Environment Minister Aaron Farrugia was also pictured with a group of people, in what looked like a crowded room. According to the latest set of public health rules, it is currently illegal to gather in groups larger than...