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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 ...

COVID-19 vaccines appear to have become slightly less effective in preventing severe disease and death but do provide “significant protection”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The Omicron ...

Police on Tuesday were investigating a threatening email sent to municipalities and the health ministry demanding the lifting of measures concerning the unvaccinated. Among other demands, the email reportedly threatened ...

Almost 100 Conservative lawmakers voted on Tuesday against some new coronavirus restrictions, dealing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson another embarrassing blow over measures he said are necessary to curb the spread ...

The health ministry announced 662 new cases of Covid-19 and one death on Tuesday. The death was a 92-year-old woman who died at home on Monday. This brings the death toll ...

The British government will remove all 11 countries from its COVID-19 travel red list from Wednesday because there is now community transmission of Omicron in Britain, Health Secretary Sajid Javid told ...