#coronavirus

The health ministry announced that a total of 65 rapid testing sites will operate around the island on Tuesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

To facilitate travel and as a temporary measure until the European Digital Covid-19 Certificate is implemented, the health ministry said on Monday that it will from June 8 issue Sars-CoV-2 vaccination ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday pushed guidance for doctors not to use the blood thinner heparin to treat rare blood clots and low blood platelets in people who ...

Health ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki stepped in to administer coronavirus vaccines at a Limassol medical centre on Monday morning, saying a nurses’ strike would not distract the ministry from ...

Germany and four other countries were moved from the Red to the Orange category on Monday as the health ministry updated its country categorisation travel list. The changes will take ...

Conflicting text messages regarding Monday’s vaccination appointments in Limassol led to confusion with some 70 to 80 members of the public, many of them foreign nationals, turning up at the Spyros ...

The rules to enforce wearing face masks indoors in Israel will be lifted starting June 15, Israel’s Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced on Sunday. Israel has already lifted the obligation ...

Six people were charged in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Monday for breaking coronavirus regulations. A police spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency that a total of 4,024 checks ...

Closed since last March, nightclubs are allowed to open on June 10, but owners are asking why should they bother? Most people know that nightclubs are opening on June 10, but a ...

No new deaths linked to coronavirus were reported on Sunday as 29 new cases were recorded around the island. This means the total number of Covid deaths so far has reached 363. ...

Free testing of the public for coronavirus continue on Monday with 61 sites around the island. Fifty per cent of those going in to work need to be tested each week, ...

People must continue to be careful despite the improving epidemiological picture, head of the government’ advisory team Constantinos Tsiooutis reiterated on Sunday. Speaking to CyBC television, Tsioutis said the pandemic ...

British health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday it was too early to say whether the government would stick to its plan to fully lift COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England ...

Police handed out fines to 10 individuals and one establishment owner for not abiding with the measures in place to contain the spread of coronavirus in the 24 hours leading up to 6...

India reported 114,460 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, the lowest in two months, while the death toll increased by 2,677, as parts of the country prepared to ease movement restrictions. India has ...

Doubts over the EU’s insistence that the Digital Covid Certificate will protect everyone’s rights over their data Activists in Cyprus are joining an EU-wide effort lobbying MEPs to ...

There were no deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, as 41 new infections were detected in 49,462 tests, a positivity rate of 0.08 per cent, the health ministry said on Saturday. The ...

Around 55 per cent of those eligible for a vaccine have received at least one dose, the health ministry said on Saturday, with Paphos having the highest rate of vaccinations in ...

District Testing site hours Limassol Ayios Nicolaos lyceum 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Grigori Axentiou Square, Limassol 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Ayios Ioannis High School 8:30 a.m.-6 p....

Children over six-years-old must have negative coronavirus tests to be allowed to visit the north, a Turkish Cypriot official said Saturday. Cenk Soydan, the co-chair of the bicommunal technical committee ...

The Singapore Formula One Grand Prix has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic, race organisers said in a statement on Friday. The ...

Police handed out fines to just four individuals for not abiding with the measures in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the last 24 hours. Police carried ...

The Covid-19 vaccination portal will remain open until 17.30 on Saturday for those aged 28-32 to make an appointment, the health ministry said on Saturday. According to the ministry’s schedule, ...

China has approved emergency use of Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine in people aged between three and 17, its chairman Yin Weidong told state TV late on Friday. China’s mass ...