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A total of 22 free rapid test sites will operate nationwide for eligible groups on Monday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been scrapped, while ...

Critics say proposed law bypasses House oversight and would entrench sweeping powers of health minister The new legislation dealing with pandemic-like situations raises a slew of red flags according to ...

Israel said it would ban the entry of all foreigners into the country, making it the first country to shut its borders completely in response to a new and potentially ...

Australia and several other countries joined nations imposing restrictions on travel from southern Africa on Saturday after the discovery of the new Omicron coronavirus variant sparked global concern and triggered ...

Parents protesting the government’s new Covid-19 measures involving primary school pupils blocked the Rizoelia roundabout in Larnaca for around 90 minutes, police said on Saturday. The parents were protesting the ...

Testing units open for eligible groups on Sunday, November 28 under the state’s mass screening programme. District Location of testing units Operating hours Lemesos (8 units) University Square (behind TEPAK Rectorate) 9 ...

Two linked cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in Britain connected to travel to southern Africa, health minister Sajid Javid said on Saturday. Omicron, dubbed a “...

Health authorities have gone on high alert following the emergence of a new Coronavirus variant of concern, dubbed Omicron, that was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) from ...

South Africa said on Saturday it was being punished for its advanced ability to detect new COVID-19 variants early, as travel bans and restrictions imposed because of the new Omicron ...

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has probably arrived in Germany, a minister in the western state of Hesse said on Saturday after mutations were found in a passenger arriving from ...

Children with asthma showed short-term improvement of their symptoms during the lockdown imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus in spring last year, a joint study of the universities ...

One death and 451 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Friday, the health ministry said. The death concerns a 47-year-old man. This brings the number of deaths from Covid-19 to 591: 378 men ...

Entry from eight African countries has been banned as of Friday after a new coronavirus variant was detected. The latest decree by the health minister bans the arrival and entry ...

By David Shepardson and Stephanie Nebehay The discovery of a new coronavirus variant triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets ...

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 ...

The health ministry issued further clarifications on Friday for the new Covid measures introduced this week. Perhaps the most notable change from the initial announcement is that on the policy ...

Achieving the objective of keeping schools open and safe requires appropriate measures, Child Commissioner Despo Michalidou said on Friday, highlighting the negative effects of closed schools and urging parents to ...

In today’s episode, Covid-19 once again dominates the news cycle as it was announced that children from the age of five will be eligible for the vaccine. There’s ...

Asian and European countries rushed to tighten restrictions on Friday after a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant was detected in South Africa, with Singapore and India announcing stricter border ...

The 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate climbed to 473.4 per 100,000 residents, a 66 per cent increase compared with the previous two weeks, the health ministry’s epidemiological report showed on Friday. As 4,204 coronavirus ...

Three businesses and 19 individuals were booked after 2,543 checks for the implementation of coronavirus measures in the last 24 hours. Most checks, 1,107, were carried out in Nicosia where three people were fined ...

The health ministry announced 489 new Covid cases on Thursday from a total of 74,277 tests, representing a positivity rate of 0.66 per cent. No new fatalities were reported, with the death toll ...

The latest epidemiological map issued by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) shows the increase of cases across the European Union and the European Economic Area, as ...

Millions of Americans got COVID-19 booster shots at a near record pace after the Biden administration expanded eligibility last week, but health officials concerned about climbing infections ahead of the ...