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Appointments for coronavirus vaccinations will be available for people aged 79 and over as from Tuesday, February 9, the health ministry said on Monday as it unveiled phase three of its national ...

Sex education is critical to protecting children from sexual abuse and must be offered at all levels of the education system, the House human rights committee underlined on Monday. The ...

Private and state dentists have resumed normal operations, the health ministry announced on Monday, the first day of the second phase of measure relaxation. Meanwhile, the vaccination of private dentists ...

Greece and Cyprus on Monday rejected any form of reunification that was not a bizonal federation ahead of an UN-backed five-party meeting early next month. In statements following a meeting ...

With around 70,000 elementary students and final year students at high schools returning to school on Monday, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou again encouraged students to take a rapid Covid test, urging ...

Shops re-opened on Monday, the first day of phase two of the easing of the coronavirus lockdown, with special offers as they try to recoup some of the losses of ...

With large numbers of people returning to work and a high number of tests carried out over the weekend, the health ministry on Monday reminded the public that all employees ...

The health ministry announced one death and 115 new cases on Sunday from 40,974 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.28 per cent. The death concerned a man aged 94 with underlying ...

Lack of flights, surge in online orders and staff shortages equal unprecedented postal delays The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the postal services as a surge in online orders from abroad ...

Growing calls to change street names in Turkish Cypriot quarter of Larnaca Names are notoriously contested territories whenever politics and history enter the mix. The Cyprus problem is no exception, ...

Questions began being asked as to how the EU – a group of some of the world’s richest and most developed countries – could be left so far behind The EU’...

Economy is the ‘worst it’s been since 1974’ Every sector of the economy has been dealt a big blow by the pandemic, but with tourist arrivals down by 85 per cent ...

Opposition parties appear determined to keep their campaign against what they view as government corruption going for as long as they can. What is worse for the government is that ...

PREZ Nik had his big day in front of the investigative committee on Tuesday, pleading ignorance to questions that he did not want to answer. He did not know that ...

NOT many people know that Chrysostomos is one of Mozart’s many names. His full name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. The current Archbishop of Cyprus is also a ...

The health ministry announced one death and 132 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 36,863 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.36 per cent and total positives to date of 31,644. ...

The Nicosia municipal council on Saturday called for the immediate restoration of the listed buildings demolished by the Archbishopric earlier this week. Archbishop Chrysostomos must also deposit a money guarantee ...

Cyprus’ epidemiological situation has improved but the relaxation of measures is likely to increase the number of Covid cases, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou warned on Saturday. He was referring to ...

Basic knowledge of the language, history and culture of Cyprus will be among the new stricter criteria to be fulfilled before the granting of Cypriot citizenship, it emerged on Saturday. ...

About 33,000 Cypriots have received the Covid-19 vaccine in less than two months, the health ministry said on Saturday. Between December 27 and February 5, a total of 32,837 people were vaccinated with the ...

Qatar and ‘Arab Quartet’ deal may prove too thin a piece of paper to cover major regional cracks After three-and-a-half years of hostility between Qatar and the ‘Arab Quartet’ – Egypt, ...

The political parties do not seem very keen on passing the code of ethics that would set certain rules regarding the behaviour of deputies. It was set to be voted ...

The health ministry announced two deaths and 133 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. The deaths concerned an 88-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman with underlying conditions. Both died in Nicosia ...

The AstraZeneca vaccine, the first 7,200 doses of which are expected to be delivered on Monday, will be administered without any age restrictions, the health ministry said on Friday. Citing the ...