#coronavirus

Mandatory rapid testing at schools does not affect children’s rights to privacy or education, children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou said on Thursday in response to threats of legal ...

The European Commission said on Thursday that there were no talks under way about buying Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, hours after the EU drugs regulator began reviewing the ...

Another 20,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine arrived in the north by plane from Turkey on Thursday morning, raising their total amount received to 100,000. Fifteen per cent of the population will ...

Pupils at Ayios Ioannis high school in Limassol were up in arms on Thursday after mandatory coronavirus rapid tests returned false positives in a number of samples. The pupils refused ...

Covid-19 related products accounted for nine per cent of all dangerous non-food items detected within 2020 by the EU Early Warning System. Inappropriate masks and disinfectants that contain toxic chemicals – such ...

German business groups expressed dismay on Thursday after Chancellor Angela Merkel and state leaders agreed a gradual easing of coronavirus curbs but added an “emergency brake” to reimpose restrictions if ...

Health authorities announced 323 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday from 33,194 tests, a positivity rate of 0.97 per cent. No deaths from the virus were reported. Eighty-nine people were being treated in hospital, 22 ...

The sisters of Spain’s King Felipe were vaccinated in Abu Dhabi last month while visiting their father who is living in self-imposed exile, online newspaper El Confidencial reported on ...

The health ministry announced that 58 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory weekly testing of employees. ...

Starting from Thursday, the health ministry will deploy 27 mobile testing units to carry out rapid antigen coronavirus tests in schools for pupils, teachers and school staff. This follows the ministry’...

Over 60 police officers and 30 patrol cars will be deployed in Limassol during Smokey or Stinky Thursday to make sure all the measures in place against the spread of Covid-19 are ...

Foreign visitors have been upset by China’s anal swab tests for COVID-19, prompting complaints of inconvenience and even psychological trauma, and stoking debate over their necessity. A few cities, ...

Main opposition party Akel on Wednesday called for normalisation of the situation at crossing points, citing contradictions and paradoxical measures from both sides as regards crossings. In a message to ...

Technical problems at the vaccination portal have been resolved and it is operating smoothly, the deputy ministry for research, innovation and digital policy said in a new announcement on Wednesday, ...

South Korean authorities said on Wednesday they are investigating the deaths of two people, both with pre-existing conditions, who died within days of receiving AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. A 63-year-old ...

There are three routes to fighting the decrees and all three would likely end up in Strasbourg By Achilleas Demetriades More than a year has passed since the decrees started ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued the most sweeping rollback of coronavirus restrictions of any U.S. state on Tuesday, lifting a mask mandate and saying most businesses may open at ...

The last few days have exposed the government’s erratic approach to dealing with the pandemic, an approach that fails to inspire any confidence or reassure people that it knows ...

Parents on Tuesday said they were outraged by a new health ministry decree that means all secondary school students must take weekly rapid tests. According to the ministry of health, ...

One death and 288 new coronavirus cases were announced on Tuesday. The new cases were from 32,933 tests, PCR and rapid tests, with the positivity rate at 0.87 per cent. The death concerns ...

€1.1bn was lost to the Cyprus economy as a result of the coronavirus, the statistical service (Cystat) announced on Tuesday. According to Cystat, Cyprus’ GDP shrank by 5.1 per cent in 2020 ...

Coronavirus: Where to get tested on Wednesday The health ministry announced that 55 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said authorities were worried by the sudden spike in coronavirus infections despite expecting an uptick as restrictions were eased. Ioannou was speaking after a meeting with ...

Cyprus’ management of the coronavirus pandemic relies on a two-pronged strategy of testing and vaccination, the health ministry said Tuesday, answering criticism in the media and by various scientists that ...