#coronavirus

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 ...

Three more elderly people have died of Covid-19, while 241 positives were detected in island-wide testing, authorities said Thursday. The latest deceased are all men: a 79-year-old with underlying conditions who ...

The health ministry has issued the testing schedule for Friday as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol “Grigori Afxentiou” Square – Dioikitirio 10 a.m.-4: 30 p.m. Event hall next to ...

The first batch of Chinese Sinovac’s vaccines arrived in the north early on Thursday from Turkey. An ambulance plane carrying 20,000 doses arrived in the north at around 5am. The ...

Despite the drop recently in coronavirus cases, the positivity rate remains high, thus it is imperative to continue observing the measures in place, head of the advisory committee on coronavirus ...

MPs on Thursday said they were not satisfied with explanations from members of the government’s epidemiological team as to why they recommended closing malls before Christmas but decided to ...

For a year expected to mark a turning point for pandemic-stricken European airlines, 2021 is off to a rough start. A resurgence of COVID-19 lockdowns has killed off a fragile bookings ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan received his COVID-19 vaccine in front of TV cameras on Thursday, a move which a spokesman for his AK Party said aimed to alleviate any public ...

Germany will have the coronavirus pandemic under control by the end of the year, but a new, fast-spreading strain of the virus risks exacerbating the situation, the public health chief ...

People who have had COVID-19 are highly likely to have immunity to it for at least five months, but there is evidence that those with antibodies may still be able ...

Once again, grocery shopping remains the most popular category for which people ask permission to leave their homes, according to the latest data. In total 315,586 messages were sent on Wednesday ...

China reported its biggest jump in Covid-19 cases in more than 10 months as infections in northeastern Heilongjiang province nearly tripled, underscoring the growing threat ahead of a major national holiday ...

Six people, including a 28-year-old woman with underlying problems, died from Covid-19 and 227 new cases have been detected from 13,298 tests, a positivity rate of 1.71 per cent, the health ministry said ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday said that unless the coronavirus vaccines reserved for his community are delivered directly via the EU and not through the Greek Cypriot side, ...

The cabinet on Wednesday rubberstamped rent relief measures for businesses stricken by the Covid crisis, which include a 70 per cent temporary discount for two months if the landlords are private ...

The first batch of the Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 arrived on Tuesday evening in Cyprus, according to the Ministry of Health. It includes 1,200 doses of the Μoderna vaccine. In the ...

Limassol Bishop Athanasios on Wednesday attributed a mix-up over the funeral of a coronavirus-infected deceased person to a misunderstanding by a local priest. The issue arose after a priest at ...

The euro zone economy is still set to rebound this year provided lockdown measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic are lifted by the end of March and vaccines distributed, European ...

Grocery shopping remains the most popular category for which people ask permission to leave their homes, according to the data Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy. In total 380,199 ...

In the past 24 hours, police carried out a record 11,059 checks for violations of Covid-19 decrees and booked 88 individuals and three businesses for not complying. Most of those who were fined ...

The health ministry announced the testing sites for rapid tests for Wednesday. District Testing Sites Time Limassol Mesa Geitonia Cultural Center (near Apostolos Andreas Church) 8.30 a.m.-5 p.m. ...

The health ministry announced four deaths and 259 new cases of people testing positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday from both PCR and rapid testing. The deaths concerned three men 60, 78 and 91 and ...