Coronavirus: Overnight curfew, fines doubled, one trip a day (Updated)
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday announced a curfew between 9pm and 6am as part of an ever-tightening raft of measures to restrict movement. The...
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J&J, US govt plan 1 billion doses of virus vaccine
Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it made a $1 billion deal with the U.S. government to create enough manufacturing capacity for more than 1...
Outbreak at heart of UK government spreading
The coronavirus outbreak at the heart of the UK government spread on Monday with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, self-isolating with symptoms...
Coronavirus: 90 per cent of state schools now offer some form of e-learning
Nearly all primary and secondary schools have uploaded materials on e-learning platforms, but a decision on whether online teaching will continue during the Easter holidays...
Coronavirus: Public urged not to stockpile drugs
The Federation of Patients’ Associations (Osak) and the Cyprus Pharmaceutical Association appealed to the public on Monday not to stockpile medications. They announced that there...
Coronavirus: University of Technology launches online survey on virus measures
The University of Technology Tepak is launching an online survey to ask the public their opinion of the restrictive measures imposed by the government to...
Coronavirus: Unnamed donor to cover costs of students’ emergency grants
Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides said on Monday that the allowances of around 2,000 students trapped abroad will be paid for by a wealthy compatriot. Cypriot...
Red Bull chief suggested drivers should deliberately catch coronavirus
Red Bull motorsport chief Helmut Marko has revealed he suggested the team’s drivers should try to become infected with coronavirus as it is the “ideal...
Coronavirus: hospitals now being stretched to limit, doctors say
State doctors’ union (Pasyki) president Sotiris Koumas on Monday has urgently called on people to remain home as much as they can “as the hospitals’...
Safe grocery shopping in COVID-19 pandemic
Healthcare provider Dr Jeffrey Van Wingen MD explains how to reduce exposure to the coronavirus disease when shopping. This received more than 20 million views...
Coronavirus: new measures expected after jump in cases
Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, is expected to announce new measures on Monday after 35 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on Sunday with authorities saying that...
EasyJet grounds fleet as pandemic pushes airlines to the brink
British budget airline easyJet has grounded its fleet of 344 planes and has no clear idea when it might resume flights, it said on Monday,...
Oil plunges to 2002 lows, shares sink again
Oil took another eyewatering 8% tumble on Monday and world shares buckled again as fears mounted that the global coronavirus shutdown could last for months....
Monday, March 30: Coronavirus global update
As of 13.00 today more than 735,130 people have been infected across the world and over 34,800 have died but at the same time 156,137...
Coronavirus: Almost 300,000 SMS requests approved over the weekend
More than 288,000 approvals for moving outside where granted via SMS messaging platform 8998 over the weekend, head of the office of the deputy ministry...
Coronavirus: Paphos opens private testing lab
A facility which will undertake tests to detect possible coronavirus cases is in operation as of Monday in Paphos The former “District Governor’s House”, has...
Former Turkey keeper Rustu Recber in hospital with coronavirus
Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber has been taken to hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus and is currently in a “critical period”, his wife...
UK officials say lockdown may last six months
UK officials said on Sunday (March 29) that Britons may be subject to some form of lockdown measures for six months or even longer....
Coronavirus: BoC urges customers to avoid unnecessary visits to branches
The Bank of Cyprus on Monday urged the public to use its electronic service, 1bank, and to avoid unnecessary visits to its branches. The call...
Coronavirus: Keve sets up bank account for donations to help
Private companies have shown great interest in wishing to donate to help in the battle against Covid-19, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) said...
