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The government vaccine portal crashed a few minutes after opening on Wednesday due to heavy traffic, angering thousands of people who were trying to arrange jab appointments. It was unable ...

Cyprus is considered one of the countries successfully implementing a Covid-19 vaccination programme and is among the first that rolled out mass rapid screenings, President Nicos Anastasiades said Wednesday during ...

There are no plans to either significantly tighten or relax the current Covid measures, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. To mark World Health Day, the president first met patients ...

Life expectancy at birth has been increasing by more than two years per decade since the 1960s but latest available data suggest it has stagnated or even declined in recent ...

The government vaccine portal crashed a few minutes after opening on Wednesday due to heavy traffic, angering thousands of people who were trying to arrange jab appointments. The portal opened ...

The eagerly-awaited list of politically exposed persons (PEP) with bad debts at the former co-op bank was made public on Monday afternoon. It did not cause the public anger that ...

A campaign calling for online signatures to a petition in support of the reunification of Cyprus was launched on Tuesday, three weeks before the informal five-party conference in Geneva. The ...

Two deaths and 559 coronavirus cases were announced on Tuesday. The deaths concern a 74-year-old woman and a man, 62, both with underlying health conditions. Neither of them were vaccinated against Covid-19. ...

The EU remains committed to the relaunch of the Cyprus settlement talks and fully supports the UN-led process as an active observer, European Council President Charles Michel said on Tuesday ...

Authorities are awaiting guidance from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) regarding a possible link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and very rare cases of blood clots but do not anticipate ...

The vaccination portal for those aged 61 and over will open on Wednesday with 19,378 appointment slots, the health ministry announced. The portal will be open from 8am Wednesday April 7 to 7pm ...

The virus is still very much in the community, meaning people need to strictly adhere to the measures issued by the health ministry, the director of the Famagusta general hospital ...

The State Department has issued further sanctions against Turkish defence industry SSB, its president and other officials over the possession of Russian S-400 missiles. A press release said the Secretary ...

Cyprus’ tourism industry remains in the dark after Britain – its biggest tourist market – announced on Monday that it has postponed a decision as to whether international travel can resume after ...

Akel’s latest pre-election populist cause is so transparently irrational that for them to even utter it out loud is nothing short of shameless. The same party that in 2012 introduced ...

The veterinary services have announced that Є75,000 will be made available to the stray cat sterilisation programme, calling on vets and animal NGOs to sign up. Cyprus’ staggering stray cat population ...

One death from Covid-19 and 565 new cases with an overall positivity rate of 1.03 per cent were announced on Monday. The health ministry said there were 196 people in hospital, of whom 47 ...

The government on Monday formally presented to parliament the question to be put in a single, island-wide referendum on the issue of local government reform, and urged MPs to “act ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris confirmed on Monday that investigations are underway into allegations that residency permits were granted in return for payments. Local media reported that a female lawyer, who ...

Police confirmed Monday they have received a new sexual harassment complaint from a woman, reportedly a teacher. Spokesman Christos Andreou said the woman reported the case through her lawyer. “We ...

Parliament on Monday published a list of the names of politically exposed persons (PEPs) with bad debts at the former co-op bank, which includes mostly former MPs but also a ...

Nicosia municipality said on Monday it had adopted an agreement for the relocation of a university department to the Phaneromeni school which is part of plans for the redevelopment and ...

A total of 54 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Workers at the Tymbou (Ercan) airport and ‘civil aviation’ in north went on a work stoppage on Monday in protest over the freeze for four months the cost-of-living increment paid ...