#coronavirus

The rapid test point at the spiritual centre at the metropolitan church of Paralimni will remain open for two extra hours on Thursday, the health ministry announced. According to the ...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine should only be given to people aged between 18 and 64, Germany’s vaccine committee said in a draft update to its vaccine recommendation, a day ahead of ...

The health ministry announced on Thursday that people aged 86 and above who have not yet reserved a slot will be able to book their Covid-19 jab on the government vaccination ...

The decision to ban access to nature trails, the forests and mountains as part of measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus is illogical and restricts human rights, the Green ...

School teachers on Thursday demanded to be included in the free vaccination programme of the government in light of the reopening of schools on January 8. “We believe that since we ...

Pressure from big business has kept small retail outlets closed until February 8, the union of small shopkeepers Povek claimed on Thursday. It said that, although all the information filtered down ...

The health ministry announced on Thursday that the obligatory testing on workers who are already at their workplaces or will return next week has started. To cope with demand, the ...

The Bar Association is set to sue the government over the easing of Covid restrictions announced on Wednesday that still limit the numbers of employees in workplaces to a skeleton ...

Portugal is in a terrible phase of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said, warning that it would be some weeks before things might start to improve and only ...

Police conducted more than 12,000 checks and booked 146 people for breaching coronavirus measures in 24 hours leading up to 6am on Thursday. In total, 12,104 checks were carried out, 4,124 in Nicosia, 3,700 in Limassol, 959 ...

Cyprus ranks fifth in a Covid Performance Index of almost 100 countries for its successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic published by think tank Lowy Institute on Thursday. New Zealand, Vietnam ...

The European Union failed to make a breakthrough in crisis talks with AstraZeneca on Wednesday and demanded the drugmaker spell out how it would supply the bloc with reserved doses ...

Employers and parents’ groups on Wednesday lambasted the government over the gradual relaxations of Covid-19 measures, saying they did not go far enough. The employers and industrialists’ federation (OEV) said ...

The health ministry announced 51 rapid testing sites for Thursday, aimed at facilitating the testing also of people who will return to their workplaces on February 1. According to the relaxations of ...

Three deaths and 128 new cases of the coronavirus were announced on Wednesday. Hospitalisations dropped to 155 with 52 patients in serious condition. Thirty-three patients are intubated. The three deaths were one woman, ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday called for action by the EU to make sure AstraZeneca treats the bloc the same way as its other customers after the company said ...

The government on Wednesday announced the easing of Covid restrictions, including reopening hairdressers and beauticians on Monday and primary schools and the retail sector on February 8. There will be mandatory ...

Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the anus to detect potential COVID-19 infections as China steps up screening to make sure no potential carrier of the new coronavirus ...

The Larnaca sewerage council (SAL) has urged people not to throw disposable masks and gloves down the toilet. In an announcement released on Wednesday, SAL said that disposable items which ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson indicated on Wednesday the COVID-19 lockdown in England would last until March 8 when schools could start to reopen as the government announced new measures to clamp ...

The European Union is pushing AstraZeneca to supply the block with more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine from plants in Europe and Britain after the company announced delivery delays, adding ...

Ali Pilli, the north’s ‘health minister’, said that the lockdown will help stem the surge of coronavirus cases – but he also criticised the mass movement of people. He said ...

It would be unfair to exclude shops in malls from reopening during the first stage of relaxations, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) has said. Malls closed in ...

AstraZeneca’s Chief Executive late on Tuesday said the European Union’s late decision to strike a contract with the drugmaker to supply COVID-19 vaccines, months after Britain, meant the ...