#coronavirus

A Nicosia-based bar was fined €8,000 on Friday for serving more people than the permitted number based on the current coronavirus restrictions. The fine was made after 603 checks in the district, ...

The total number of coronavirus infections recorded by the health ministry was on Friday reduced by 162 cases as part of the scientific experts’ review of the epidemiological data. The review ...

China’s commercial hub of Shanghai ground to halt on Friday after the government locked down most of the city’s 26 million residents to stop the spread of COVID-19, even ...

Coronavirus cases and hospitalisations increased by about 78 per cent in the last 14 days compared with the previous two weeks, the biweekly epidemiological report showed on Friday. However, the number of ...

Authorities on Thursday announced two more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while testing tracked 4,349 new positives. The latest fatalities were two men, aged 85 and 62. That takes the death toll since March 2020 ...

The health ministry announced one death and 4,774 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday. The new death was of an 84-year-old woman, bringing the total death toll to 933. There are 182 people ...

The test to stay policy will be extended as expected to health professionals starting April 1, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. The decision was announced “as part of efforts to contain ...

A private doctor on Wednesday slammed the health ministry and health professionals over the visitation ban at hospitals as he posted messages from a hospitalised patient who was begging for ...

More than 20,000 bankers, traders and other workers are bedding down in office towers in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district as they bid to keep China’s giant financial hub ticking over ...

European health ministers urged the bloc’s executive on Tuesday to back a fourth Covid-19 shot for people over the age of 60 to boost immunity in the absence of vaccines ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced two deaths and 5,089 new coronavirus infections from 95,315 tests, giving a positivity rate of 5.34 per cent. It said that there are a total of 182 Covid-19 ...

Authorities seem to be freezing out any idea of covid relaxations, at least for the next couple of weeks, as new cases spiked yesterday to almost 6,500, with hospitalised patients now ...

The administration of the fourth dose, or booster shot, of the Covid vaccine for people aged over 80, and those who live and work in nursing homes and closed structures, regardless ...

In the last 24 hours police issued 24 fines for violation of Covid decrees. After a total of 1518 checks, one manager and 23 other individuals were fined. In Nicosia, one manager five other ...

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by ...

The health ministry announced three deaths from coronavirus on Monday as a new record of 6,494 daily coronavirus infections were detected from 115,930 tests, a positivity rate of 5.6 per cent. The deaths ...

Thirty-two rapid testing sites for Tuesday District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Lefkosia (14 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 99146623 Agios Dometios Municipality (event hall) 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 Agios Georgios Church, ...

Armenia has been upgraded from the red to the green category, according to the health ministry’s latest updates to country classifications, which will take effect from Thursday. The ministry ...

The health ministry on Monday announced that people who were Covid-positive and self-isolating can now be released earlier than the mandated ten days provided they have a negative rapid test ...

Four establishments and 17 people were fined in the last 24 hours during checks for violation of coronavirus decrees. A total of 2,039 checks were carried out island wide. In Nicosia, following 631 checks, ...

The free testing sites for Monday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (15 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 99969931 Agios Dometios Municipality (event hall) 9 am – 6 pm 99154344 ...

The health ministry announced that there were no new deaths from Covid-19 and that 4,314 had tested positive from 82,650 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 5.2 per cent. The death ...

Saying an estimated 30,000 people in Cyprus suffer at least one long Covid symptom, the federation of patients associations announced the establishment of a group to support them, In an announcement, ...

Senior citizens who received a second booster of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination had a 78% lower mortality rate from the disease than those who got one only, a study from ...