Cyprus

Health professionals are struggling to cope as the number of admissions of patients with coronavirus continues to surge. The daily number of Covid patients is around 280 which is very high. ...

A bill for €1 billion in state-backed loans to Covid stricken businesses is expected to be approved by parliament on Thursday, including a controversial provision to have the auditor-general monitor the ...

Cyprus’ best known and most photographed bird, ‘Kokos’ the pelican, has died at the ripe old age of 25. Found at the Pelican restaurant in Kato Paphos alongside his friend, a ...

Cyprus faces the grim prospect of another lost year for tourism, the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) warned on Wednesday. The dire warning was delivered by ACTA spokesman Haris ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday a lockdown “is a scenario that remains on the table” should the number of daily Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations increase in the coming ...

A vaccination programme for enclaved Greek Cypriots has been nearly completed, presidential commissioner Photis Photiou whose portfolio includes humanitarian issues, told the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday. He said that ...

A total of 60 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The general court of the EU said on Wednesday that the EU’s Intellectual Property Office should not have registered the name ‘Grilloumi’ by Swedish company Fontana Food AB. The ...

The commerce ministry’s consumer protection service said on Wednesday it had fined the House Finance Corporation €20,000 over some of its advertisements. The service found that a number of them ...

Cypriot deputy minister of tourism Savvas Perdios used his attendance at the Meet in Cyprus 2021 virtual expo to provide an update on the country’s efforts to keep tourism afloat ...

Tourist business owners in the Famagusta district staged a protest on Wednesday morning to complain about insufficient government support during the pandemic. The protest was attended by various unions and ...

Should the number of positive Covid-19 cases increase even more in the next weeks, the government will have no choice but to revert to stricter measures, according to Maria Koliou, ...

Personal doctors trying to book appointments for patients were frozen out of the vaccination portal on Wednesday, family doctors association president Andreas Polinikis said. The portal opened on Wednesday morning ...

Strovolos municipality has been clamping down on Easter lambradjia – bonfire celebrations — with seven truckloads of stockpiled wood confiscated in recent days. Strovolos Mayor Andreas Papacharalambous spoke to the media about ...

Efforts are focused on finding a way so that both communities on the island feel safe, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday in Athens upon his arrival at the office ...

In order to speed up the vaccination of the population the government has announced a new schedule for the Covid-19 vaccinations, meaning the portal for the age group from 49 to 50 ...

The Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine will be administered from Thursday or by Monday at the latest after it was given the green light by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...

Police arrested a woman who caused an accident while driving more than eight times over the alcohol limit in Limassol on Tuesday. The accident happened at 4pm when the car ...

Paphos police caught two people driving under the influence of drugs, one on Tuesday evening and the other one later at night. The first, a 23-year-old man, was stopped by ...

Police booked nearly 200 individuals for breaches of coronavirus in 24 hours though less checks than in recent days were carried out. Officers fined 194 persons, including two business owners and conducted 9,814 checks ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is scheduled to meet Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Maximos Mansion in Athens at 10.30 on Wednesday, government spokesman Kyriakos Kousios announced. According to Kousios, the ...

Cyprus Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Tuesday outlined a plan that integrates the European instrument, the “Recovery and Resilience Facility” with the strategy for the country’s economy. First of ...

The world over, governments are viewing the ocean as a new economic frontier By Maria Hadjimichael A consequence of the economic crisis and the realisation of the finite nature of ...

Annual event on April 22 is celebrated by a billion people in more than 190 countries By Annette Chrysostomou The theme of this year’s Earth Day, marked on Thursday, April 22, is ...