Katy Turner

The ministry of health has announced 18 places for the public to get rapid coronavirus tests on Monday. In addition to these 25 mobile units will be testing in businesses, government departments ...

Police have made an appeal for information after two patients have gone missing from the Athalassa hospital. They are looking for Theodoros Topouzides, 20, from Greece and Loizos Demetriou, 26, both of ...

The ministry of health’s scientific committee is set to examine the use of a gut drug as part of its protocol for treating coronavirus patients. Following announcements in Greece ...

Eight drivers have been found positive for a narcotest since January 13, the police said on Sunday. In one case, early on Sunday morning a Nicosia driver failed to stop when ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos is expected to testify before the four-member investigative committee looking into citizenship by investment on Tuesday. Speaking in Paphos on Sunday, he said the contribution the church received ...

A woman was arrested after driving with five times the allowed limit of alcohol in her blood, police announced on Sunday. According to police, members of the traffic police stopped ...

The relaxation of coronavirus measures after January 31 is considered certain, with the scientific team of the ministry of health backing the path followed last May and June, after the first ...

The infectious diseases committee in the north has relaxed some coronavirus measures in the north. According to Turkish Cypriot media, most schools in the north will open as of Monday. ...

The forthcoming opening up of primary schools must be carried out in an organised and proper manner, president of primary school teachers union Poed Myria Vasiliou told the Cyprus News ...

A 39-year-old man has been arrested after he was stopped by the traffic police driving under the influence of both drugs and alcohol, in addition to having a weapon and ...

A total of 149 people and two businesses were charged in the 24 hours leading up to Sunday morning for breaking coronavirus restrictions. They were the result of 11,044 tests across the island. ...

A 27-year-old man has been arrested in the Famagusta district as police investigate the theft of wood with the aim of selling it as firewood, the force announced on Sunday. ...

To ease the public’s visits to the mountains and after photos showed hordes of people visiting the snow on Saturday, the police announced on Sunday they will be controlling ...

One more person died from Covid-19 and 569 new infections have been detected after 14,309 tests, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The number of deaths since March has reached 134 while 50 people ...

Two people died from Coronavirus on Sunday, the ministry of health announced, bringing the total to 131, while 529 new positive cases were recorded. A total of 182 Covid patients are being treated ...

If opposition parties want there to be early elections, they should just say so, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. He was speaking during an interview with Phileleftheros which focused ...

The police Cyber Crime Unit on Sunday arrested a 28-year-old Limassol man after he attempted to solicit a teenage girl and sending indecent messages via the internet. The case started ...

The ministry of health has announced the locations for rapid tests on Monday that are available to all for free. They are: District Location Time Limassol Gregoris Afxentiou Square 8.30 am-5 ...

Hundreds of demonstrators took part in a protest drive from the GSP stadium to the presidential palace on Sunday afternoon. The protest was against the coronavirus measures, although those addressing ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday warned President Nicos Anastasiades to “not chase dreams that will not become a reality”, adding that a two-state solution is realistic. He was ...

The new variant of coronavirus identified in the UK has been found in Cyprus, the ministry of health said on Sunday after tests on people from the UK were completed. ...

Twelve cats have been found brutally beaten to death and the incident has been reported to the police by the CopsCats animal welfare group. The group said the dead cats ...

With hospitals around the island under strain, the state health services organisation Okypy has appealed to the private sector to come forward. “Things are difficult in hospitals,” Okypy spokesman Charalambous ...

A 24-year-old driver was spotted on the Larnaca-Kofinou highway on Sunday driving at 207 km/hr, twice the speed limit. According to police at 10.45 on Sunday morning, a traffic police patrol ...