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The health ministry announced that two people had died from Covid-19 on Sunday and that 393 had tested positive from 64,507 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.61 per cent. The ...

Self tests will be available in Cyprus from December 20, the health ministry announced on Sunday. The tests – five per pack – will be available free from pharmacies for people who have ...

It shouldn’t be such a grim Christmas this year, but socialising will be a confusing, rule-laden affair – and subject to change A second Christmas under coronavirus measures is hardly ...

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Vienna on Saturday in protest against restrictions introduced to halt the spread of coronavirus in Austria, including mandatory COVID-19 vaccines and home confinement ...

One person died on Saturday from Covid-19 while 428 new cases were recorded, the ministry of health said. The death referred to an 80-year-old woman who had been in Famagusta general ...

A total of 45 free testing sites will be operated by the ministry of health on Sunday offering free rapid tests to those in eligible groups. These includes minor up to 17, ...

Cyprus is considering reducing the time for booster dose eligibility from six to five months, a government advisor said on Saturday while calling on adults to get their third anti-coronavirus ...

Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had ...

People with coronavirus suspected of having been infected with the Omicron variant will be transferred to mandatory state quarantine, as two more cases of the new variant were detected in ...

Shipping Deputy Minister Vassilios Demetriades tested positive to coronavirus on the day he received the booster anti-coronavirus jab, he announced on Saturday. In a tweet, the deputy minister said he ...

Police fined a Nicosia bakery €4,000 for failing to check its customers for a SafePass, it was announced on Saturday. The fine was imposed after 1,445 checks in the capital during which ...

By Maria Demertzis The discovery of the latest Omicron variant of COVID-19 sent stock markets into a freefall on Black Friday. However, markets recovered on Monday and have since shrugged ...

Japanese researchers have developed masks that use ostrich antibodies to detect COVID-19 by glowing under ultraviolet light. The discovery by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto and his team at Kyoto Prefectural University in ...

The health ministry announced 662 new cases of Covid-19 and no deaths on Friday. As there were no new deaths, the toll remains 607, of whom 389 were men and 218 women. There are 138 ...

The health ministry on Friday announced that the vaccination portal has opened for the booking of Johnson & Johnson booster shots. Up until now, people could only get a booster ...

A total of 50 free rapid test sites will operate nationwide for eligible groups on Saturday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been scrapped, while ...

India has detected 25 cases of the emergent Omicron variant of the coronavirus and all have shown mild symptoms, the health ministry said on Friday, adding that there was no immediate ...

Health authorities said Friday they have identified three cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Limassol. All three cases concerned Greek Cypriots who had returned from a trip ...

Health authorities said Friday they planned to launch vaccinations of children between five and 11 next week, as Covid-19 infections in the particular age group recorded an increase in recent weeks. ...

Cyprus’ cumulative 14-day diagnosis rate (per 100,000) as of December 6 stands at 752.8 while over a million rapid tests were carried out during that period, the health ministry said on Friday Notably, ...

By Nikolaos Kapitsinis, No one would describe 2020 as normal. The coronavirus disrupted travel, employment and livelihoods. It pushed countries into lockdown, forcing people to change how they lived. And it ...

A red spectre has washed over the EU as the bloc of 27 nations and its regions remains overwhelmingly in the ECDC’s dark red status, including Cyprus. The data compiled ...

In today’s episode, the government plans to go ahead with taxation reform, including raising the corporation rate and introducing carbon tax and fossil fuels taxes to achieve the country’...

Police reported 15 individuals and five shop owners for violating the measures aiming to contain the spread of Covid-19. A police spokesperson told CNA that in the last 24 hours ending on 06:00 ...