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The country’s tourism boss sounded a cautiously optimistic note on Thursday about the sector’s prospects in the new year, but acknowledged the looming uncertainty as European leaders in ...

The health ministry on Thursday issued more clarifications regarding people’s access to certain types of venues in terms of vaccination or testing status. Under the new rules, effective December 15, ...

The ombudswoman said Thursday she has asked the Limassol-based university of technology (Tepak) to reverse a decision banning unvaccinated students from physically attending classes saying it was discriminatory. Maria Stylianou ...

Authorities on Thursday announced two more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while testing tracked 632 new positives to the coronavirus as the number of hospitalised continued to climb. The two latest fatalities ...

Demand for Covid-19 vaccines for children 5 to 11 was higher than expected, the health ministry said on Thursday amid complaints from parents trying to book appointments for their children. Vaccination against ...

At the instruction of the attorney-general, police have filed charges in two separate cases relating to the pandemic, including threatening doctors over Covid vaccines. In a statement on Thursday, the ...

The health ministry on Thursday clarified procedures to be followed by individuals who cannot be vaccinated against the coronavirus on medical grounds so that they can be exempted from SafePass ...

Divisions within the European Union have deepened over travel rules to curb the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, after Italy and Greece followed Portugal and Ireland in announcing ...

A total of 21 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Friday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

France will beef up controls on travellers arriving from Britain after a steep rise there in infections linked to the Omicron coronavirus variant, the government said on Thursday. The measures ...

Half of the scheduled weddings and baptisms have been cancelled following a decree banning unvaccinated people from social events, the Cyprus association of professional events said on Thursday. Cancellations of ...

Famagusta hospital, the island’s reference hospital for coronavirus, is 93 per cent full as infections continue to surge, its director Amalia Hadjiyianni told the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday. She ...

Police on Thursday said they issued 12 fines after 2,232 checks for the implementation of coronavirus measures in the last 24 hours. Two bars were booked in Limassol for €750 each after the manager ...

Paphos hotels have been operating at a 30-40 per cent capacity so far in December, the district’s hoteliers’ association said on Wednesday. Association head Thanos Michaelides said that in ...

Europe is experiencing the largest wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, said on Wednesday, adding that based on the recent data of the European Centre ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 and 650 new infections on Wednesday, while 157 patients are in hospital receiving treatment for the virus. A 95-year-old man who died on Tuesday ...

Covid measures at schools must not disrupt learning for unvaccinated or pupils who have tested positive, the federation of Paphos secondary school parents’ associations said on Wednesday. Head Christodoulos Demetriou ...

Parents who consent for their five to 11-year-old children to receive the Covid-19 vaccine will be able to do so from December 17, the health ministry said on Wednesday as they ...

The European Union’s drug regulator on Wednesday recommended that a booster dose of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 shot may be given at least two months after a first ...

A total of 23 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

A Nicosia shopping mall was fined €16,000 after a customer was found inside the premises without a SafePass, police said on Wednesday. The fine came after 1,062 checks in the capital, during ...

Electronic scanning of the SafePass of people who received one Covid vaccine dose will begin this weekend, the health ministry said on Wednesday, as the unvaccinated are banned from key ...

German police searched several locations in the eastern state of Saxony on Wednesday as part of an investigation into what they said was a plot to murder the state’s ...

Alphabet Inc’s Google told its employees they would lose pay and eventually be fired if they do not follow its COVID-19 vaccination rules, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing internal ...