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Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects a lockdown in Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus to last until the start of ...

Authorities in China introduced new COVID-19 curbs in areas surrounding Beijing on Tuesday, putting 4.9 million residents under lockdown as new infections raised worries about a second wave in a nation ...

Five deaths from coronavirus and 288 new cases of the virus were announced on Monday. The health ministry said the five deaths were four men aged 70, 77 and two aged 89, along with ...

More than 450,000 text messages were sent for permission for movement on Sunday, the first day of the lockdown. According to Deputy Minister for Innovation and Digital Policy, Kyriacos Kokkinos, no ...

The health ministry announced the rapid test locations for Tuesday, as detailed below: Province Sampling points Hours Limassol Lidl parking lot (Franklin Roosevelt Street 45) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ‘Sigma’ ...

The first doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to arrive in Cyprus this week, by Wednesday at the latest, the health ministry said on Monday afternoon. It was not ...

More than 80 per cent of public schools now have access to speedier internet and the project is expected to be concluded by the end of January, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority ...

Half the people in a Bank of Cyprus poll said they had suffered a loss of income to some degree in the past five months, as Cyprus feels the full ...

This time we all know what a lockdown means but does that mean we are any better equipped to deal with it? ALIX NORMAN asks what we will be carrying ...

Tensions rose in the northern part of Nicosia on Monday during a protest by Turkish Cypriots working in the south against the measures that prevent them from getting to their ...

By Annette Ekin There was one science story that dominated 2020 and coronavirus is likely to remain a dominant theme in 2021. But from vaccine rollout to lessons for future pandemics and – ...

A significant reduction in the number of coronavirus cases will only be observed in the third week of the lockdown, according to Petros Karayiannis, Professor of Microbiology/Molecular Virology at ...

Preparations are underway to set aside beds for the treatment of coronavirus patients at Paphos general hospital, state health services organisation Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. Once Larnaca ...

The Archbishopric announced on Monday the death of the Holy Synod’s chief secretary from Covid-19. Archimandrite Gregorios Mousouroulis, 71, had tested positive on December 17 and was hospitalised nine days later. ...

France should consider closing its borders with Britain and other countries that have a strong presence of the new variant of the coronavirus first found in the UK, a French ...

Worldwide coronavirus cases surpassed 90 million on Monday, according to Reuters tally, as nations around the globe scramble to procure vaccines and continue to extend or reinstate lockdowns to fight new ...

Britain is concerned about the spread of COVID-19 in supermarkets and particularly people breaching rules by not wearing masks while shopping in them, Minister for COVID Vaccine Deployment Nadhim Zahawi ...

The health ministry announced one death and 339 new cases of people testing positive for Covid-19 on Sunday from both PCR and rapid testing totalling 8,778. The death concerned a 75-year-old man ...

Hellenic Bank said on Sunday it was ready to implement the latest Covid decree and was reducing the number of staff who would be working at its branches. The bank ...

Akel, through it’s Nicosia-Kyrenia Secretary Christos Christofides, on Sunday slammed President Nicos Anastasiades for saying in a Politis interview that the government had successfully managed the second wave of ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had put out feelers to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of procuring vaccines from Tel Aviv. In an interview with ...

Business organisations on Sunday issued a “desperate plea” in a letter to the president to increase the number of people allowed to have a physical presence at work to 25 per ...

Rapid testing for businesses that will remain open during the three-week lockdown begins on Monday, the health ministry announced Sunday. The sampling will be carried out at mobile units at ...

The streets and highways of the capital were deserted at midday on Sunday, one of the busiest days of the week for Old Nicosia as the new lockdown kicked in ...