#coronavirus

Positive Covid-19 cases among vaccinated care home residents are ‘not worrying’, the head of care home owners’ association Loukia Gregoriou told the Cyprus Mail on Tuesday. Following reports that 20 coronavirus ...

The Pancyprian Supermarkets Association on Tuesday urged the health ministry to proceed with immediate coronavirus vaccinations of supermarket employees. The employees have been at the forefront of the pandemic from ...

Turkey on Tuesday sent an additional 40,000 doses of the Chinese Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine to the north, according to reports in the media. A Turkish health ministry aircraft carrying the jabs ...

Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is completely full, with 75 patients being treated there on Tuesday. Of the 75 people, eight are in the high dependency unit as they ...

Police booked 201 persons, including two business owners, in 24 hours from Monday until Tuesday morning for breaching coronavirus protocols. One of the establishments is a café in Limassol in which five ...

Gas and firewood furnaces at a crematorium in the western Indian state of Gujarat have been running so long without a break during the COVID-19 pandemic that metal parts have ...

A UK research study carried out by former strategy chief at British Airways is currently only featuring eight “safe countries” for travel and excludes Cyprus. The study by Robert Boyle, ...

The health ministry appears to no longer be informing the public as to whether people who have died from Covid-19 also suffered from underlying health conditions. For the past two ...

Shouting “Get out of my pub”, a landlord in southern England threw out opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer on Monday and berated him for what he said was his failure ...

A total of 9,360 vaccination appointments were booked by those in the eligible age group of 51-52 on Monday, while 6,640 remain available to booked on Tuesday. The vaccination portal and its 6,640 ...

Three deaths from Covid-19 and 822 new cases were reported on Monday with a positivity rate of 1.38. The three deaths were two men, aged 58 and 82, and a woman, aged 64. For the ...

Limassol municipality announced on Monday it would cut rent by 50 per cent to businesses affected by the pandemic measures from last January to March. The municipality announced that the municipal ...

A total of 58 rapid testing sites for coronavirus will operate across the island on Tuesday according to an announcement by the health ministry. The sites aim to assist the mandatory ...

Cyprus tourist arrivals saw an annual 93 per cent drop in January to March, data from the Cyprus statistical service (Cystat) showed on Monday. Between January to March this year, 246,556 tourists ...

Priority for vaccinations will be given to all staff working for May’s parliamentary elections, it was announced on Monday. The cabinet approved on Monday the proposal put forward by ...

Greece began opening to tourists on Monday with few bookings but hopes for a better season to help make up for a 2020 devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. On Rhodes island, ...

The House finance committee on Monday formally decided to take a bill on state-backed loans to the plenum for a vote later this week – literally on the eleventh hour before ...

Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is currently 99 per cent full, its medical director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Monday. By Monday night 284 people were in hospital with coronavirus ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said vaccinations will be decisive for tackling the pandemic on the island after he received his first AstraZeneca shot on Monday, in keeping with other ministers ...

The current measures against the spread of coronavirus will remain in place until at least mid-May, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday, pointing out there will be no tightening ...

Cyprus has downgraded Denmark from Orange to Red and Thailand from Green to Orange, while upgrading Iceland from Orange to Green and Ireland and Finland from Red to Orange in ...

Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is currently 99 per cent full, its medical director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Monday. “Today 74 patients with coronavirus are being treated at the ...

Police booked more than 200 people and businesses for failing to comply with coronavirus measures from Sunday until Monday morning. A total of 207 individuals, including seven business owners were fined in 24 ...

Three deaths and 852 coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The deaths concern three men aged 62, 65 and 92. The 65-year-old man had received the first dose of a vaccine. The other two ...