Malta does not want to implement the announced border closings for those not fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
However, people who entered Malta without a vaccination certificate would have to go into quarantine for a certain period of time, the government said on Tuesday evening.
The border closure announced on Friday should have come into effect on Wednesday night.
The duration of the quarantine initially remained unclear.
Newcomers from so-called “red” countries were previously obliged to self-isolate for 14 days.
Malta's Health Minister Chris Fearne justified the planned border closure on Friday with the rise in corona infections.
On June 28, the island state, in which around 80 percent of adults are fully vaccinated, had only 28 active corona cases.
On Friday, however, there were again 252 cases.
Unlike in other European countries, the authorities do not attribute the increase in the number of cases in Malta to the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
However, the planned border closure had caused criticism from the EU Commission, which feared that the EU-wide travel certificate would be impaired.
This provides for equal treatment of those who have been completely vaccinated with those who have recovered and those who have tested negative.