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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 ...

Flights to Cyprus from the UK over the next weeks will not increase progressively as expected, the main reason being the decision by the British government not to include the ...

A nine-year old Asiatic lion has died from the coronavirus in a state-run zoo on the outskirts of the south Indian city of Chennai, the zoo said on Friday. There ...

The health ministry announced one death and 83 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. A 92-year-old man passed away at Limassol hospital, bringing the total death toll to 363, of whom 241 were ...

The ministry of health announced some changes would be made to Monday’s vaccination schedule due to state nurses’ union’s 12-hour work stoppage. The affected vaccination centres are Port ...

The prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England almost doubled in the last week of May and the estimated reproduction “R” number crept up as the “Delta” variant became more widespread, ...

The health ministry announced a total of 82 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Switzerland will start distributing “COVID-19 certificates” next week to people who have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from infection as a way to ease travel in Europe, the government ...

Cyprus has moved into the ECDC’s orange category as the 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate dropped to 130 per 100,000 residents, the ministry of health said on Friday. A total of 1,154 positive ...

Authorities on Thursday announced one more death from Covid-19, plus 53 new positives from ongoing island-wide testing. The deceased was a woman aged 73, who passed away at the ICU of Nicosia ...

Britain has removed Portugal from its quarantine-free travel list, the country’s transport minister said on Thursday, essentially shutting down the UK’s leisure travel market and deepening the pandemic ...