In today’s episode, deputy leader of the Green Party Efi Xanthou said the “Test to Stay” scheme to be introduced in schools today to allow close contacts to stay in lessons will only create more problems.

Meanwhile, the full picture of the new “parliament” in the north, for which elections were held on Sunday, is also expected on Monday.

In other news, no information collected so far indicates that people in Cyprus were involved in the well-publicised rape of a 24-year-old woman in Thessaloniki, police said.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.