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Health authorities said Friday they have detected 28 additional cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. In a statement, the ministry said 20 of those were primary and secondary contacts of ...

A group of migrants from refugee camps in Cyprus who are being resettled in Italy at Pope Francis’ expense helped the pontiff celebrate his 85th birthday on Friday. “You saved ...

The health ministry on Friday confirmed reports that a lab in Paphos was using cotton swabs for rapid tests. According to the health minister’s spokesperson, Konstantinos Athanasiou, they were ...

The European Council has acknowledged the magnitude of the problem facing the Republic of Cyprus due to the extremely high migration flows it receives, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on ...

Saying there is high interest among people to get vaccinated against coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Friday that over 94,500 people had received a jab over the last ten days. ...

Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill Paxlovid will soon be available in Cyprus, deputy director of the pharmaceutical services Elena Panayiotopoulou said on Friday, after the EU drugs regulator approved its early ...

The country’s tourism boss sounded a cautiously optimistic note on Thursday about the sector’s prospects in the new year, but acknowledged the looming uncertainty as European leaders in ...

The agreement between unions of the two sides to arrange the employment of Turkish Cypriots in the Republic, which is faced by acute labour shortages was a commendable initiative. The ...

The ombudswoman said Thursday she has asked the Limassol-based university of technology (Tepak) to reverse a decision banning unvaccinated students from physically attending classes saying it was discriminatory. Maria Stylianou ...

Authorities on Thursday announced two more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while testing tracked 632 new positives to the coronavirus as the number of hospitalised continued to climb. The two latest fatalities ...

Demand for Covid-19 vaccines for children 5 to 11 was higher than expected, the health ministry said on Thursday amid complaints from parents trying to book appointments for their children. Vaccination against ...

Police were investigating one of their own on Thursday after he sought to fly to Athens from Larnaca without going through security checks, causing hours of delay to two flights. ...

Heavy precipitation is forecast over the next three weeks over the Eastern Mediterranean, the met office said on Thursday citing advice from the Climate Watch Advisory Group of the World ...

Opposition MPs honed in on the government’s failings on the second day of the budget debate on Thursday, leaving Disy alone to defend what it said was a successful ...

The Turkish Cypriot union Turk-Sen is partnering with Greek Cypriot labour union Sek to allow up to 8,000 Turkish Cypriots to work in the government-controlled areas, according to Turkish Cypriot newspaper ...

Irregular migrant arrivals to Cyprus surged 244 per cent in November compared to the same month last year, Frontex, the EU’s border control agency said on Wednesday. Highlighting the influx, ...

Twelve migrants out of the 50 selected to settle in Italy under the protection of Pope Francis departed on Thursday morning, the interior ministry said. The ministry thanked the pope for ...

The attorney-general was forced to drop match fixing charges against the chairman of a second division football club and a referee after the main prosecution witnesses retracted their statements and ...

Half of the scheduled weddings and baptisms have been cancelled following a decree banning unvaccinated people from social events, the Cyprus association of professional events said on Thursday. Cancellations of ...

Famagusta hospital, the island’s reference hospital for coronavirus, is 93 per cent full as infections continue to surge, its director Amalia Hadjiyianni told the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday. She ...

Paphos hotels have been operating at a 30-40 per cent capacity so far in December, the district’s hoteliers’ association said on Wednesday. Association head Thanos Michaelides said that in ...

A statement yesterday from the interior ministry on migration read more like an angry rant from a very frustrated person than a measured government announcement on a sensitive issue. That ...

Europe is experiencing the largest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, said on Wednesday, adding that based on the recent data of the European Centre ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 and 650 new infections on Wednesday, while 157 patients are in hospital receiving treatment for the virus. A 95-year-old man who died on Tuesday ...