#coronavirus

With just nine weeks until the start of the Olympics in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday sought to calm fears in Japan that the Games would present ...

Cyprus has submitted a full report to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) regarding the serious thrombotic incident which afflicted a 39-year-old British woman. The incident was first reported on Thursday, ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been pledging for concerted global efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and calling for a better global governance in the public health domain. China has ...

Cyprus’ cumulative diagnosis rate for Covid-19 fell to below 500 per 100,000 residents, reflecting the improved epidemiological picture of recent days, the health ministry’s weekly report showed on Friday. The better ...

Half of the vaccination appointments made available for people aged 46 to 49 were booked in the first 30 minutes, the health ministry said on Friday. Some 5,770 people arranged appointments by 8am. The ...

Support for the government has dropped by almost half in the past year as more people in Cyprus report that they’ve lost their jobs permanently and around 62 per cent ...

In February main opposition Akel tabled, then withdrew a bill which – according to a prominent lawyer – had sought to ‘legalise’ the unlawfulness of the coronavirus decrees so far. The legislative ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced two more deaths from Covid-19, and 77 new positives from 49,364 tests island-wide, a positivity rate 0.16 per cent. The latest deaths concerned a man aged 97, who died ...

Cyprus could be on Britain’s ‘green list’ in three to six weeks, a top official has said, as the island seeks to prevent another lost tourism season. Cyprus is ...

A 39-year-old British woman in Cyprus is in the Nicosia general hospital after a serious thrombotic episode. The woman had been vaccinated previously with the AstraZeneca vaccine. The health ministry ...

Developments are expected soon regarding the opening of crossings between the two sides according to reports and statements on Thursday. The bicommunal technical committee on health is scheduled to meet ...

The central elections service said on Thursday that the parliamentary elections on May 30 will adhere to a number of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus and ensure the safety ...

A district of northern Thailand has launched a raffle campaign for its vaccinated residents to win a live cow per week for the rest of the year, in a bid ...

Japanese regulators recommended the approval of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca PLC’s on Thursday, paving the way for the country to speed up its slow-moving vaccination ...

Cyprus on Thursday added Chinese Covid vaccine Sinopharm to the list of approved vaccines accepted for entry into the country. The decision comes into force on Friday, the transport ministry ...

Despite the uncertainty concerning the arrival of tourists this summer, the deputy ministry of tourism remains optimistic that this year will turn out to be better than the last one ...

It is preposterous that we still have to wear a face mask outdoors. There is no public health reason to rationally justify this, but the decree making it mandatory remains ...

The health ministry announced a total of 80 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday called for political parties to support necessary reforms so that Cyprus can fully utilise the €1.2 billion from the national recovery and resilience plan. Petrides ...

The first cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 have been detected in Cyprus, the health ministry announced on Wednesday. The variant was detected in four of the samples taken ...

Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to the novel coronavirus, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday, indicating a runaway spread of the virus as ...

Hospitals have seen a significant improvement in the past few days, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. There are currently 150 coronavirus patients in hospitals, of whom 33 ...

For Parisian Elie Ayache, the world felt a little more normal on Wednesday after the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic: he was back at his favourite cafe, drinking his morning ...

The Covid-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca Plc and Oxford University works well as a third booster dose, stepping up antibodies to the coronavirus spike protein among participants in a study, the ...