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Police on Saturday issued an alert due to heavy rains along the Nicosia-Limassol motorway. In a social media announcement, the force warned drivers to be careful, drive at low speed, ...

€30,000 saved or spent? Alix Norman asks Cyprus residents how the pandemic has affected their finances The average working Brit has saved £300 per month during the pandemic, according to the Bank ...

Cyprus has asked EU borders agency Frontex marine patrols to halt migrants sailing from Turkey`s southern coast to the island`s north Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said, speaking during ...

Police booked 119 individuals and four establishment owners for violating Covid measures. A police spokesperson told CNA that in the last 24 hours ending 6am Saturday, officers carried out 11,160 checks. In Nicosia 23 ...

Makarios hospital has created a room suitable for Covid-positive mothers to give birth naturally, following a year of mandatory caesarean sections for pregnant women nationwide who tested positive for the ...

Education authorities and health officials decided Friday to discuss potential readjustments to Covid protocols at schools after the one proposed the previous day was deemed unenforceable. During a teleconference on ...

No deaths from Covid-19 were announced Friday, as the number of new infections detected reached 601 from a record 63,207 tests. The positivity rate was, 0.95 per cent. The ministry said 205 patients were ...

The health ministry announced Friday it was making 15,000 vaccination slots available on Saturday for people aged 57 and 58 only The vaccination portal will be open from 8am until 8pm, the ministry ...

People with certain disabilities cannot access the guaranteed minimum income (GMI) scheme or an allowance because they are classified as having mild or moderate disabilities and not serious or total ...

Expectations from the informal summit on the Cyprus problem set to take place in Geneva at the end of this month hinge on Turkey’s positions, President Nicos Anastasiades said ...

Coronavirus protocols at schools should remain the same until the Easter break so as not to disrupt the educational process, secondary school parents said on Friday in response to the ...

Paphos based cyclist Petros Stylianou will set off on a new venture on Saturday morning with the aim of raising as much money as possible for an initiative that is ...

A total of 61 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The audit office on Friday said it would further investigate the naturalisation of foreign investors approved by the cabinet after last August when stricter regulations had been passed by parliament. ...

The British variant is dominant in Cyprus, the health ministry said on Friday citing the latest results on samples collected from people of Cyprus found positive for Covid-19 that were ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said on Friday she received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Belgium where she is currently based. Speaking to Sigma TV, Kyriakidou said ...

The Cyprus Mail reposts an August 2017 article on Prince Philip’s relationship with Cyprus, written when it was announced he was retiring from public duties By Nathan Morley THIS week ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday called on the public to “leave behind” their concerns over the AstraZeneca vaccine and trust doctors. “The consequences of the possible side effects are so ...

Coronavirus on the island is showing “a clear upward trend”, the government’s weekly report said on Friday. The report covered the period from March 24 to April 6, with epidemiologists reporting ...

Jet2 will suspend flights and holidays until at least 23 June due to uncertainty over the UK government,s travel proposals, the budget airline’s chief executive Steve Heapy announced on ...

Hellenic Bank has posted its financial results for the previous fiscal year, exhibiting a solid foundation for the year to come, despite reduced profit and total net income due to ...

Home vaccinations for bedridden people have almost been completed, the health ministry said on Friday, adding the vaccination campaign is proceeding at a satisfactory pace. The ministry said one of ...

Construction of a new highway will damage bird habitats and is proceeding against the advice of environment studies, BirdLife said on Friday. BirdLife has raised concerns about the decision taken ...

A 38-year-old man under police detention escaped from the Eden rehabilitation centre where he was being treated for Covid, police said on Friday. The suspect, initially arrested for burglary cases ...