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Almost 9,000 vaccination appointments for those aged 66 and older will be made available over the weekend, the health ministry announced on Friday. Some 8,934 appointments will be made available though the online ...

Denmark, Sweden and Norway said on Friday they needed more time to decide whether to use AstraZeneca‘s COVID-19 vaccine while Finland joined them in putting the shots on hold, ...

Around 7,000 people who were affected by the postponement of AstraZeneca vaccinations will be called on Monday and Tuesday to rebook their appointments, it was announced on Friday. According to acting ...

The health ministry announced that a total of 64 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) have called on people in Cyprus to refrain from staging mass protests in the coming ...

Government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos received the AstraZeneca jab on Friday, becoming the first member of the government to be vaccinated against the coronavirus after President Nicos Anastasiades who kicked off ...

France’s medical regulator approved the resumed use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, but said it should be given only to people aged 55 and older. The restriction breaks ...

EU leaders will endorse prolonged export checks and seek to coordinate an eventual lifting of travel curbs when they meet next week to discuss COVID-19 vaccination shortages, according to a ...

The European Commission has sent more than half a million rapid antigen tests to Cyprus to facilitate checks to contain the spread of the pandemic, the Cyprus News Agency reported ...

The coronavirus pandemic slashed an estimated three per cent off local wages and salaries in the second and third quarters last year, the annual report on the economy and employment ...

Nearly a dozen countries resumed use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shots on Friday as EU and British regulators said the benefits outweighed any risks after reports of rare instances of ...

German health minister Jens Spahn on Friday dampened hopes that further coronavirus restrictions will be lifted soon, saying rising infections could mean that curbs to slow the spread of the ...

Cyprus has been declared a ‘dark red zone’ based on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the health ministry’s epidemiological report revealed on Friday. According to ...

A hoteliers’ group and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Friday urged the government to amend its decree to allow Cyprus’ permanent residents to stay at local hotels. ...

Most eateries and bars in Ayia Napa and Protaras are expected to reopen in mid-May with the arrival of the first summer tourists, their spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency ...

A man being sought by police for organising a carnival party in Episkopi last weekend was located at 8am on Friday morning, police said. According to the police, the 27-year-old ...

Police booked eight businesses, four of them located in Limassol, for violating coronavirus protocols from Thursday until Friday morning. Three of the establishments are in Larnaca and one is in ...

France imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and parts of the north after a faltering vaccine rollout and spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants forced President Emmanuel Macron to shift ...

France’s prime minister on Thursday imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and several other regions after a faltering vaccine rollout and spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants forced President ...

The health ministry announced 385 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday from 45,598 PCR and rapid tests yielding a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. Eighty-three of the new cases were in Limassol ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out in Britain were safe and he was due to have his ...

Following the opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which clarified that, after a thorough investigation, there was no link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the thromboembolic events reported by ...

The European Commission would like to see member states and the European Parliament act quickly on its proposal for a digital green certificate covering vaccination, testing and recovery so that ...

Authorities are deeply concerned over the fact that the more infectious coronavirus variant first identified in Britain was detected in all 45 samples sent from Cyprus to the European Centre for ...