Two members of staff at Mater Dei Hospital have contracted the H1N1 virus, the Health Department said this evening.
The two, both Maltese, worked in the same section and had been at work when a foreign student who was in Malta on an exchange programme reported for work (at the hospital) with flu symptoms. She was sent home on the same day.
The two staff members are being treated in their homes. The situation is being monitored, the Health Department said.