#coronavirus

The Test and Stay scheme to be introduced in schools as of Monday to allow close contacts to stay in lessons will only create more problems, deputy leader of the ...

State support has been laughable say those in artistic community A year ago, the Cyprus Mail spoke to artists, actors, writers and musicians who were virtually all in dire straits ...

Eight businesses in Nicosia were fined €500 for employees not having a SafePass while one was fined €1,500 because the manager was not wearing a facemask as almost 3,000 checks of Covid measures ...

Novak Djokovic is world tennis champion, not an anti vax champion. He arrived in Australia armed with a visa that gave him a presumptive right to enter and take part ...

As extreme winds grip the island the ministry of health on Sunday announced changes to its rapid testing locations. A site in Kyperounta due to offer free rapid tests to ...

People should get back to the office to benefit from in-person collaboration because the world must learn to live with the coronavirus after a pandemic that has wiped trillions of ...

Six deaths from coronavirus and 1,984 new infections were announced on Saturday, out of 82,187 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.41 per cent. Three of the deaths – men aged 66, 72 and 90 – ...

Close contacts of Covid-19 cases will only have to self-isolate for 10 days instead of 14 from Monday. Close contacts can also released earlier than the 10th day if they have a ...

Sixty-three free rapid testing sites will operating for eligible groups on Sunday District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Lemesos (15 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” ...

China’s capital Beijing urged all its local districts on Saturday to maintain “full emergency mode” as the city continued to report new local coronavirus cases, less than two weeks ...

Cyprus police fined 28 individuals and 15 businesses over the 24 hours until Saturday morning for violating anti-Covid measures. A total of 2,124 checks were carried out island-wide. The highest fine, €4,000, was handed out ...

Stay-at-home market darling Netflix slumped on Friday, joining a broad decline in the market value of other pandemic favourites this week as investors priced in expectations for a return to ...

It is premature to talk about the end of the Covid-19 pandemic this spring as there might be a Delta variant outbreak, a health ministry’s advisor said on Friday. ...

Italy plans to set aside 150 million euros ($169.91 million) to compensate those suffering side effects from COVID-19 vaccinations, a draft decree seen by Reuters showed on Friday. The government plans will ...

A total of 67 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Saturday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

A test to stay programme aimed at allowing children who are coronavirus contacts but not infected with Covid-19 to go to school, kicks off on Monday, with the health ministry ...

Coronavirus cases started showing a decline, but the disease burden remains high, the health ministry’s epidemiological report showed on Friday. According to the report, prepared by state experts, 46,487 coronavirus ...

Cannabis was the most used drug in Cyprus during the restrictions against the spread of Covid-19, while there has been a drop in the use of ecstasy according to the ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced 11 deaths from Covid-19 – only three of which occurring on the day – while 2,282 more people tested positive for the coronavirus. The latest announced fatalities were: ...

The UN Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission in Cyprus has announced some tweaks to vaccination and testing status at the crossing points. In a statement on Thursday, the Mission said ...

The government is thinking of expanding the ‘test to stay’ programme to other population groups as a step towards learning to live with the virus, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said ...

A total of 28 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Friday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

A second pack of free Covid-19 self-tests will be available for the fully vaccinated as of January 25, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The announcement added that distribution of the ...

Mobile vaccination units will operate in Pachna and Kambos on Saturday in a drive to vaccinate the public against Coivd-19 and particularly to administer the booster dose so as to ...