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The relaxation of the Covid measures we expected this week did not materialise, the higher number of cases, compared to the previous week, and relatively high positivity rate making the ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 2,568 had tested positive from 87,025 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.9 per cent. The death concerned ...

An independent body should be brought in to evaluate the health system, the patients’ association said on Saturday, a day after an audit-office report alleged illegalities and tax evasion within ...

The health ministry on Saturday said it hopes to vaccinate 75 per cent of the overall population against Covid-19, while calling on people to keep abiding by the personal protection measures. ...

Paphos police on Saturday were investigating after two detainees escaped from the district’s central police station. The escapees are Alexandros Sarkisides, aged 28, and Ernai Kozmiov, aged 34, both of Russian ...

Tourist guides on Saturday said its members were being unfairly treated after the sector was not included in the new state support plans for businesses impacted by the pandemic. In ...

Representatives of embattled agricultural producers are lobbying for state aid to help mitigate the cost of damage to their crops from the frost and extreme weather of recent weeks. Tassos ...

President Anastasiades has a habit of acting as a mediator or facilitator, getting involved in matters that are best left to his ministers and in some cases better left to ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday he was having intensive consultations with all stakeholders to agree on changes to be forwarded to the European Commission regarding halloumi, which was ...

The health ministry announced 2,907 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths on Friday. The deaths were a man aged 85 and a woman aged 80, who died at Larnaca and Nicosia hospitals ...

The national Covid vaccination programme has stalled in recent days, health officials said on Friday, as the island saw a slight increase in daily positives. There has been a noticeable ...

A scathing report by the auditor-general has alleged illegalities within Cyprus’ health care system, while identifying 11 Gesy doctors who each earned over €500,000 in 2020 – with one topping the charts at a ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Friday that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and has mild symptoms. “We should not be complacent,” the minister tweeted as he announced his ...

Cyprus has called for EU sanctions on airlines allegedly used by irregular migrants to gain access to the government-controlled areas via the north and Turkey. The Republic has consistently accused ...

January was the deadliest month since the pandemic outbreak, with 96 deaths attributed to Covid-19, the health ministry’s epidemiological report showed on Friday. Overall, 104 people with coronavirus died in January, ...

Four men, aged 19 to 44, were remanded on Friday in connection with the gangland-related murder of a 53-year-old man in Larnaca in December The arrests took place during a large police ...

About a third of imported scrap tyres pass through the port in Limassol without being subject to an environmental fee, while thousands of tyres end up in illegal landfills, MPs ...

Surprise was expressed in some quarters about how soon after assuming his post as foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides was invited to Washington for talks with the Secretary of State Antony ...

Opposition lawmakers on Thursday expressed disappointment at the latest version of a bill governing the state’s handling of pandemics, saying it still failed to address concerns over curtailing human ...

Health authorities announced no fatalities from Covid-19 on Thursday, while testing detected 3,078 new positives. The death toll since March 2020 remains at 736. In hospitals, 222 people were being treated for Covid-19, of ...

Primary and nursery schoolteachers will stage a one-hour work stoppage on Monday to protest the way the pandemic is being handled at schools, teachers’ union Poed said on Thursday. As ...

The European Commission is proposing to extend the EU Digital Covid Certificate by a year, until 30 June 2023, it said on Thursday. The Commission said Covid-19 continued to be prevalent in ...

The introduction of a national minimum wage was at the centre of a meeting between Peo trade union federation with President Nicos Anastasiades at the presidential palace on Thursday. Cyprus ...

Amid reports of lower spectator capacity at the new Limassol football stadium than initially announced, the town’s football clubs will meet President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday to communicate their ...