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After confirmation from the European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organisation last week about the safety and efficacy of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, the ministry of health on Sunday ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is prepared to requisition private sector doctors to assist in the public health system’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, he said on Sunday, after ...

The rate at which Germans are getting infected with the coronavirus has jumped above the level at which authorities say healthcare systems will be overburdened, raising pressure on political leaders ...

AstraZeneca said on Sunday its COVID-19 vaccine contains no pork-derived ingredients, countering an assertion in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, that the drug violates Islamic law. Indonesia’...

The effect of illegal carnival gatherings last weekend and the relaxations of measures last Tuesday will start to be seen by the epidemiological team as of this coming Tuesday, a ...

Eight businesses and 118 people were charged for violating coronavirus decrees in the 24 hours up to 6am on Sunday. The businesses were in Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta. Two were charged ...

All the PCR tests but one on 26 people at the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos taken have come back negative. The tests were taken after 26 out of 75 soldiers at ...

It was nationally too sensitive to let the European Commission procure vaccines for EU states To protect from the virus or from the vaccine, that was the question in Europe ...

The health ministry announced one death and 407 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 53,774 PCR and rapid tests, yielding a positivity rate of 0.7 per cent. The death concerned a man ...

Greece will start distributing free do-it-yourself COVID-19 tests next month, the government said on Saturday, as it seeks to alleviate pressure on a healthcare system facing a stubbornly high level ...

Rapid test sampling units for Sunday are as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (18 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 9.30 a.m.-7.30 p.m. TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, ...

Gymnasiums could reopen if Covid protocols are implemented but how soon that may be has not yet been decided, an adviser to the government told secondary school union Oelmek, it ...

Half of all adults in Britain have now had at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, making the country the world’s first major economy to hit that milestone, health minister ...

Holidays abroad are “extremely unlikely” for most Britons this summer due to the risk of importing new variants of Covid-19, a scientist who advises the government said on Saturday, leaving ...

The education ministry was slammed on Saturday for firing a contract teacher after they refused to undergo the mandatory weekly rapid test for coronavirus. In a statement denouncing the ministry’...

Coronavirus is “the only illness” where patients lack human contact and pass way alone, the medical director of Famagusta reference hospital for coronavirus Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Saturday. “These people [...

Denmark on Saturday reported two cases of hospital staff with blood clots and cerebral haemorrhage after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination. The Capital Region of Denmark, the authority which handles ...

More than 60 British lawmakers have written to interior minister Priti Patel calling for protests to be allowed in England during lockdown. Under England’s coronavirus rules, it is unlawful for ...

More than 70 per cent of vaccination appointments were booked an hour after they became available for people aged 66 and older, the health ministry said on Saturday. Some 8,934 appointments were made ...

Police fined 169 people and eight establishments for violations of Covid measures during a total of 12,276 checks in the last 24 hours islandwide. In Nicosia there were 3,285 checks and 32 people were booked. ...

A few days after restaurants, bars and coffee shops re-opened after 3 months of lockdown – despite Covid cases still being quite high – we spoke to a selection of bar/restaurant owners ...

Most coronavirus patients admitted to Famagusta Hospital the past fortnight have required treatment for about seven to eight days, hospital chief Amalia Hadjiyianni has said. “The past 15 days, most cases ...

China’s first local coronavirus case since February was a staff worker at a hospital and had received two shots of a vaccine between end-January and early February, state media ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson received his first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and urged the public to do the same, saying “he did not feel a ...