#coronavirus

As daily coronavirus numbers continue to climb, President Nicos Anastasiades will on Monday evening meet the scientific advisory team on the pandemic. The meeting will be held at 6.30pm at ...

Free rapid testing continues on Monday with 59 sites around the island. In accordance with decrees in place 50 per cent of workers physically at workplaces need to undergo weekly tests. The ...

The health ministry announced 226 new positive cases of coronavirus on Saturday out of 41,809 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.54 per cent. No deaths were reported, but 43 people are ...

About 35 per cent of people aged 20 to 29 have now received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, while almost 48 per cent of the adult population has completed their vaccination, ...

A total of 72 free rapid test locations will operate on Sunday, the health ministry announced as unvaccinated workers must ensure a weekly negative coronavirus test. The testing sites, also target ...

Sydney and some surrounding areas will enter a hard two-week COVID-19 lockdown on Saturday as authorities struggle to control a fast-spreading outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant that has ...

Government advisers and experts are proposing various means of increasing vaccine uptake – with some saying that transparent discussions are the way forward while others have called for harsher restrictions on ...

The health ministry on Friday announced no new deaths from Covid-19 but said another 169 people had tested positive from 42,660 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.40 per cent, slightly ...

Tourist industry stakeholders paint a grim picture of upcoming July following the UK’s announcement that Cyprus would remain in the amber category, effectively delaying the arrival of British holidaymakers ...

Tempers flared at a vaccination centre in Larnaca on Friday over delays caused by the large number of people there. Police were called to the vaccination centre at the port ...

Icelanders will no longer need to wear masks or keep a safe distance from other people as all COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted on Saturday, the country’s health minister ...

The health ministry announced that a total of 74 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

The health ministry on Friday expressed “great concern” over the increase in coronavirus cases among young people who have “intense social activity” and reiterated calls for the public to get ...

A slight rise in hospital admissions of people suffering from Covid-19 has been seen in recent days, mostly among the under 40s, some of whom are in serious condition, the ...

The British Olympic Association is still trying to convince some athletes to get vaccinated against COVID-19 before next month’s Tokyo Olympics, chief executive Andy Anson said. The BOA said ...

Israel told its citizens on Friday they must again wear masks indoors, 10 days after being allowed to ditch them, amid a sustained surge in coronavirus infections attributed to the highly ...

Cyprus will remain on the UK’s ‘amber’ list of countries for the coronavirus, putting paid to the island’s hankering for an influx of British tourists for July as ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced 175 new positives to the coronavirus, with the positivity rate from testing remaining stable at 0.51 per cent. There were no new deaths attributable to Covid-19, with ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron urged fellow EU leaders on Thursday to take a firmer line on travel from countries outside the bloc, such as Britain, ...

The health ministry announced a total of 63 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Outgoing Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou urged youths on Thursday to get the Covid vaccine, as health authorities said they have located two coronavirus clusters in the past couple of days, ...

Passengers traveling to Cyprus must upload from July 1 their EU Digital Covid Certificate (EUDCC) on the Cyprus Flight Pass online platform, the transport ministry announced on Thursday. This follows approval ...

A further five cases of the Delta variant have been detected in Cyprus from samples taken between March 9 and June 11, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The lab work, carried ...

Greece will end the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors and ease other remaining restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said , with infections now clearly on the wane. ...