Bernard Grech rebuts charges that he breached COVID-19 rules

Nationalist Party leadership candidate Bernard Grech has defended himself from accusations that he breached public health rules by not self-isolating for 14 days after his wife tested positive for COVID-19. In a Facebook post, Grech said that he was being attacked by ministers as part of a coordinated campaign by the Labour Party to try and discredit him. Grech spent two days in isolation this week until two COVID-19 tests gave him the all-clear, after his wife Anne Marie tested positive for the virus. His wife had been in self-isolation since September 17 after she discovered that she had come into contact with a known virus case at her gym. She only tested positive for the virus several days later, following a second COVID-19 test. Labour MPs including ministers subsequently criticised Grech for what they said was a breach of public health laws. Economy Minister Silvio Schembri, Environment Minister Aaron Farrugia and Energy Minister Michael Farrugia, who have all been ordered into mandatory quarantine, drew comparisons between themselves and Grech.  On Saturday, prime minister Robert Abela said that Grech seemed to have his own quarantine laws. 'I was never ordered into...