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One-third of rapid tests carried out during the past week concerned people working in the private and public sectors, the health ministry said on Sunday. Between January 11 and 15, 47,241 rapid tests ...

The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly managing the endeavour against Covid-19. ...

The health ministry on Saturday announced one death from Covid-19 and 202 new cases from 8,014 PCR and rapid tests. The death concerned a man aged 70 with underlying conditions who died at ...

People across France started heading home late on Saturday afternoon to meet a new, 6 p.m. curfew intended to help stem the spread of coronavirus infections, especially a more infectious ...

The following are the sampling point for rapid tests on Sunday: District Sampling points Hours Limassol Tassos Papadopoulos Building – TEPAK, Limassol (Iphigenia and Themidos Corner) 8.30am-4.30pm Church of Agia ...

Nicosia police arrested two men, 29 and 39, who allegedly assaulted officers, one by biting the policeman after they were found late Friday walking on Ledra Street without a face mask. According ...

Vaccinations continued with 4,191 people receiving the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech jab this week, bringing the total amount of those vaccinated to 10,226, the health ministry announced on Saturday. Another 200 vaccinations on ...

Cyprus recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases in the last 14 days according to the latest health ministry’s national report. Between December 30 and January 12, the health ministry diagnosed 5,907 people ...

Police fined 85 individuals and establishments for breaking the health ministry’s decree against the spread of coronavirus in the last 24 hours. The fines were a result of 9,975 checks. According to ...

An updated epidemiological risk assessment of countries for Covid was issued on Saturday by the health ministry that leaves only four countries in Category A – those considered safest for travel, ...

The advisory committee on coronavirus is already mulling a possible relaxation of the lockdown, but any decision will be contingent on fewer hospitalisations, committee head Constantinos Tsioutis said. “The most ...

Britain is tightening border controls to block new variants of COVID-19, suspending all “travel corridor” arrangements that had meant arrivals from some countries did not require quarantine. Prime Minister Boris ...

European governments said the credibility of their COVID-19 vaccination programmes was at risk on Friday after U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer announced a temporary slowdown of deliveries of its vaccines. ...

The first modest batches of coronavirus vaccines are expected to go out under the COVAX scheme for poorer countries in the first quarter of this year, the top World Health ...

The health ministry said Friday that that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer would temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe of its vaccine against Covid-19 while it upgrades its production capacity. A total of 3,510 ...

The health ministry announced 244 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday from a total of 11,163 PCR and rapid tests. The total number of cases since March has reached 28,609 while Cyprus is ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) said their results in 2020 were very disappointing, mainly due to problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the committee’s Greek Cypriot member ...

The health ministry has announced 24 rapid tests locations for the general public islandwide for Saturday. Limassol Tassos Papadopoulos building, Tepak (corner of Ifigenias and Themidos), 8.30 am- 4.30 pm. Ayia Varvara Church, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar kick started the vaccinations against coronavirus in the north on Friday after receiving the first jab of Chinese firm’s Sinovac batch sent this week ...

Many European Union nations say they are receiving lower-than-expected supplies of COVID-19 vaccines and complain in internal meetings of uncertainty over future deliveries, EU officials told Reuters, as distribution proceeds ...

The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to take a heavy toll on the Cypriot community in the UK, with Parikiaki newspaper estimating that a total of 480 UK Cypriots have died from ...

Cyprus ranked second highest for coronavirus testing per 100,000 population amongst the 29 members of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), with Denmark ranking first. Cyprus’ 7181 tests per 100,000 over 14 ...

Hospitals in Brazil‘s northern state of Amazonas ran short of oxygen and made an urgent call for help from the United States on Thursday, as Britain slapped a ban ...

Health officials have assured MPs that efforts are being made to secure greater vaccine doses for the coronavirus, which until now have been limited to a trickle. Olga Kalakouta, acting ...