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Romania has been reclassified from red to orange, in a minor tweak to the Republic’s Covid-19 travel restrictions list that comes into force on Thursday. The health ministry also ...

Britain refused to rule out curbs on gatherings on Monday, a day after the Netherlands imposed a fourth lockdown prompted by the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus and as ...

A total of 2,952 checks were carried out by the Police in the last 24 hours as part of the checks to ensure compliance with measures against the coronavirus, during which 18 people ...

Israel on Monday added the United States to its “no-fly” list, citing concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. Under the edict, which goes into effect at 2200 GMT ...

In today’s episode, the orange weather warning issued by the met office remains in place until 1pm today as Storm Carmel hit the island yesterday. In other news, a 74...

One death and 448 new Covid-19 cases were announced on Sunday by the health ministry. The death concerns an 87-year-old man who died on Saturday at the Nicosia general hospital. This ...

An events planner was fined €8,000 for violations of the measures against the spread of Covid-19, police said on Sunday. The case concerns an organiser of a private company event in ...

A total of 22 free rapid test mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Monday, for eligible groups, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has ...

The Netherlands will go into a strict lockdown over the Christmas and New Year period to try to contain the highly- contagious Omicron coronavirus variant, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 508 had tested positive from 75,844 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.67 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

A total of 45 free rapid test mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Sunday, for eligible groups, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has ...

Passengers arriving from the UK will have to self-isolate upon arrival to Cyprus until their PCR test results are out, the health ministry said on Saturday. This measure has been ...

Nine businesses and 23 individuals were booked by police during 2,729 checks in the past 24 hours for violating Covid decrees. In Nicosia 1,125 inspections were carried out and one premises plus three individuals ...

Pfizer Inc on Friday forecast that the Covid-19 pandemic would not be behind us until 2024 and said a lower-dose version of its vaccine for 2-4 year olds generated a weaker ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and 695 had tested positive from 82,410 tests, a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. The death concerns a 62-year-old woman who ...

Health authorities said Friday they have detected 28 additional cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. In a statement, the ministry said 20 of those were primary and secondary contacts of ...

The health ministry on Friday confirmed reports that a lab in Paphos was using cotton swabs for rapid tests. According to the health minister’s spokesperson, Konstantinos Athanasiou, they were ...

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is up to four times more likely to cause inflammation of the heart muscle, a very rare side effect, than its rival vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech , according ...

A total of 45 free rapid test mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Saturday, for eligible groups, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has ...

European Union governments have agreed to exercise an option to buy more than 180 million doses of a version of the COVID-19 vaccine adapted for the Omicron variant developed by BioNTech ...

Austria said on Friday it was temporarily loosening its lockdown on those not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 over Christmas and New Year’s Eve thanks to a drop in infections. “...

Saying there is high interest among people to get vaccinated against coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Friday that over 94,500 people had received a jab over the last ten days. ...

The Premier League is under increasing pressure to suspend this weekend’s entire schedule following a raft of coronavirus-enforced postponements. Five of the 10 scheduled matches across Saturday and Sunday have ...

Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill Paxlovid will soon be available in Cyprus, deputy director of the pharmaceutical services Elena Panayiotopoulou said on Friday, after the EU drugs regulator approved its early ...