These are the leading stories in local newspapers on the first day of the year, January 1, 2022.

Times of Malta reports that five people are under investigation following a fatal fall at a Marsa factory that cost a casual worker his life.

The newspaper also gives prominence to a continued spike in COVID-19 cases: newly detected infections topped 1,400 for the first time on Friday.

The Malta Independent leads with news of a record number of COVID-19 infections and also give prominence to an announcement that schools will physically reopen on January 10.

L-Orizzont leads with a new year’s message from GWU president Victor Karachi, in which he warned against divisive language that “encouraged hate and threatened democracy”.

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