#children

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. ...

Covid vaccinations for children aged 5-11 have reached around 9 per cent, health ministry director-general Christina Yiannaki said on Saturday. She was visiting the walk-in vaccination centre operating at the State ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday authorised the use of a third dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 15, and narrowed the interval ...

Seeking to facilitate parents and guardians of children aged 5 to 11, the health ministry said on Tuesday it will operate large vaccination centres for children in cooperation with the Society of ...

A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail after having been found guilty of sexually molesting his two nephews. In handing down the sentence, Nicosia criminal court noted ...

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. ...

The government has recently improved maternity benefits, but will this encourage couples to have more children? New government measures to fight falling birth rates and “safeguard Hellenism” have been dismissed ...

Children between six and 11 were the age group with most Covid cases recorded in the past four weeks, according to a by-age breakdown published on Tuesday by the health ministry. ...

When is a shoebox a gift? Why, when it’s packed with toys and trinkets for kids, of course! Over the years, we’ve seen several seasonal Christmas Shoebox Schemes ...

The state vaccination committee will discuss Wednesday the inoculation of children between the ages of five and 11, the health ministry’s permanent secretary, Christina Yiannaki said on Tuesday. Yiannaki said ...

The State Health Services Organisation (Okypy) will honour one of Cyprus’ pioneering paediatricians, the late Dr Minas Hadjiminas, by naming one of the children’s wards at the Makarios Hospital ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law extending the duration of maternity leave for mothers with two children or more. For the second child, maternity leave has been ...

In the first case of its kind, Paphos district court has rejected a father’s request to allow his children to be vaccinated despite their mother’s objections. This is ...

The naturalisation plight of two children of a Greek Cypriot mother and a Turkish Cypriot father is a bit like being thrown back in time to 1980s Cyprus, and the ...

The council of ministers has approved a three-year plan to tackle and prevent child sexual abuse and harassment as parents called for measures following complaints against teachers that emerged earlier ...

MPs on Tuesday called for support measures to encourage couples to have more children, citing the low birth rate which is well below the replacement level of 2.1. The House ad ...

The vaccination portal will open on Monday at 7.30 am for appointments to vaccinate children aged over 12 following cabinet’s decision to expand vaccinations to the 12 to 15 age group, the health ...

One in every three victims of human trafficking detected worldwide is a child, and the pandemic has made more children vulnerable to human traffickers, Hope for Children said on Friday. ...

The Cyprus Paediatric society on Friday recommended to immediately include 12 to 15-year-olds in the coronavirus vaccine programme, saying that 20 per cent of coronavirus cases in Cyprus concern children. The recommendation ...

Children in the north are being enticed to pray at the mosque twice a day as part of a religious summer school with the promise of a free bicycle, it ...

Lakatamia municipality announced on Tuesday another playground that includes toys for children with disabilities has been completed and is ready for use. The playground is located at the Ayios Georgios ...

Hope for Children and Cyprus’ National Betting Authority have joined forces to create a safety net to help protect children and adolescents from gambling activity. A memorandum signed by the ...

Primary school pupils on Saturday decorated Limassol’s Molos area with 2,300 hand-decorated t-shirts, raising €25,000 for the ‘One Dream, One Wish’ association for children with cancer and related diseases. Envisioned by ...

A UN Refugee Agency (Unhcr) official has expressed concern over the wellbeing of 200 migrant children, half of whom unaccompanied, currently hosted at an overcrowded reception centre, the organisation said on ...