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The scientific team met on Tuesday evening to discuss the epidemiological picture and prepared its advice regarding the easing of the restrictions. On Wednesday morning they discussed the situation with ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced one death and 143 new cases of Covid-19 from 26,603 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.54 per cent. The death concerned and 86-year-old woman ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Cypriot authorities to lift the “unlawful and disproportionate” blanket ban on demonstrations while also criticising the police for using unnecessary and excessive use of ...

There has been no decision on special measures just for Limassol, the government said on Wednesday, following reports that the coastal town could see fewer relaxations due to its negative ...

Cyprus had administered more than 64,500 coronavirus vaccinations up until Tuesday and has also met the EU target of vaccinating 80 per cent of its health professionals by March, the health ministry ...

Ahead of the easing of the lockdown, the government will buy the services of 260 registered unemployed to strengthen enforcement of coronavirus related protocols and rules, the commerce, industry and energy ...

Coronavirus clusters have emerged in two primary schools in Limassol including pupils and teachers, forcing the closure of one on Wednesday, as health authorities were trying to trace all the ...

The International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (Intosai) has expressed concern over the government’s refusal to convey information relating to the island’s citizenship by investment programme to the ...

President of the House of Representatives Adamos Adamou said on Wednesday that Parliament must raise its standards and improve its image among the public who are turning their backs to ...

Twenty people in a first division handball team in Cyprus have tested positive for coronavirus, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Wednesday. According to the agency, the positive cases involve ...

A woman claiming she had been raped by a senior cleric in 2011 had been deemed unreliable by the archbishop, according to a Church source quoted by the Cyprus News Agency. ...

“We’re involved in damage control,” Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides told the Cyprus Mail in an interview. Fortunately, the government has the means to keep the damage to a minimum ...

Cypriot hoteliers were hopeful on Tuesday that tourism would slowly recover this year after tour operators in the UK reported a surge of around 600 per cent in holiday bookings, with ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou appears to have taken on the thankless and lonely task of publicly arguing the case for a Cyprus settlement at a time when even the government ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday harangued the government for leaving refugees renting premises on Turkish Cypriot land in the south out to dry. Livestock farmers in the Nisou area, whose premises lie ...

No new Covid-19 deaths but 176 new cases were announced by the health ministry on Tuesday night. With a positivity rate of 0.63 per cent, the 176 new cases are a significant uptick ...

Morphou bishop Neophytos won’t pay a fine for violating coronavirus-related decrees and, should the state decide to prosecute, he will defend himself in court, his lawyer said on Tuesday. ...

A total of 395 complaints have been handled since September by new police domestic violence units, the force announced on Tuesday as a domestic violence NGO said its helpline receives about ...

Cyprus will receive more than 120,000 Covid vaccines in March, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Approximately 10,000 Pfizer vaccines are expected to be delivered in Cyprus each week next month, and ...

The endangered Cyprus grass snake has been found in two areas of the Macheras forest park, unknown until now, it emerged on Tuesday. The Cyprus grass snake (Natrix natrix cypriaca) ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told the new permanent representative of Cyprus to the UN that the international organisation and he personally are “committed” to Cyprus and its people and ...

International holiday bookings surged by as much as 600% after Britain laid out plans to gradually relax coronavirus restrictions, giving battered airlines and tour operators hope that a bumper summer could ...

The results of a study carried out for the first time show there is a high level of lead at the southern tip of the Larnaca wetlands which will very ...

Saturday’s eagerly awaited protest march in Nicosia turned out to be a non-event incident-wise in comparison to what took place seven days earlier, even if close to 10 times more ...