These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Monday.

Times of Malta leads with a report on how a University of Oxford index has indicated that Malta is one of the least strict countries in the European Union in terms of measures imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19.

In a separate piece, it reports that self-confessed Daphne Caruana Galizia murder middleman Melvin Theuma is set to return to the witness stand this afternoon after a six-month absence following a ‘self-harm’ incident in July. 

The Malta Independent quotes Mount Carmel CEO saying that all complaints received by the hospital are taken seriously, while in a secondary frontpage story, the newspaper reports that 53 per cent of companies in Malta made use of cloud computing services in 2020. 

L-Orizzont publishes a frontpage photo of Prime Minister Robert Abela inaugurating the Santa Lucia tunnels. It also carries an interview with firefighter Christopher Aquilina about his 30-year career. 

In-Nazzjon quotes Bernard Grech who on Sunday spoke to party supporters about a renewed PN. 

In a separate piece, it claims that the government is ignoring doctors and nurses as it drafts a new agreement with Steward Healthcare. 

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