#coronavirus

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas will on Monday meet with the coronavirus advisory team, in an apparent bid to hash out differences in opinion as well as deal with the mixed ...

Authorities on Thursday announced no new fatalities from Covid-19, while nationwide testing found 264 people testing positive for the coronavirus. The official death toll stands at 587; earlier in the day, the ...

The death of an eight-year-old girl in the north on Wednesday is believed to be due to Covid-19 complications but the exact cause is to be determined after specialised tests, ...

The health ministry has raised the number of fatalities due to Covid-19 by 10 to 587, after verifying the data reported by the epidemiological surveillance unit previously. The additional deaths concern seven ...

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 ...

The Delta variant (Β.1.617.2) remained dominant among Covid-19 samples sent for sequencing to the ECDC and a private lab in Cyprus, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The Delta Plus sub-variant (...

An advisory panel of pandemic experts in the Netherlands recommended on Thursday imposing western Europe’s first partial lockdown since the summer, putting pressure on the government to take drastic ...

Police booked 23 people during 2,871 nationwide checks for the implementation of coronavirus protocols in the last 24 hours. Most fines were issued in Limassol, where the least number of checks, 221, were carried ...

An eight-year-old girl with Covid-19 died in the north on Wednesday. ‘Prime minister’ Faiz Sucuoglu, in a post on social media confirmed reports of the girl’s death. “Unfortunately, an ...

One death from coronavirus and 275 new infections were reported on Wednesday out of 51,166 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.54. The death was of a man, aged 85. The number ...

The health ministry clarified on Wednesday that the EU Digital Covid Certificate is valid for one year from the date of the EUDCC rollout, which in Cyprus took place in ...

Increased pressure on public hospitals due to a continuous flow of patients with seasonal infections, Covid-19 and other cases is leading to 100 per cent occupancy rate in state hospitals, the ...

On Wednesday, the European Commission approved the eighth contract with a pharmaceutical company with a view to purchasing its potential vaccine against Covid-19. Valneva is a European biotechnology company developing ...

Cabinet has approved a request by the health ministry to grant people getting their booster shot a day off work, it was announced on Wednesday. This concerns members of the ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced the appointment of a new vaccination advisory committee to serve for the next three years. The committee’s job will be to advise the ...

Some 67 per cent of Cypriots are in favour of stricter government measures tackling climate change, even if this would impose significant changes in people’s lifestyles “similar to those implemented ...

In today’s episode, we hear that a price rise for fresh milk has been avoided but there is continued speculation that increases for other goods are expected. Police are ...

A total of 27 people were booked in the last 24 hours for violating coronavirus measures, police said early on Wednesday. The fines came after 2,576 controls in the government-controlled areas carried out ...

The responsibility to abide by CovScan rules should fall exclusively on the public, not businesses, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) and the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) ...

A 26-year-old woman who had initially reported an ambulance employee for pretending to be a doctor and issuing a fake coronavirus vaccination certificate for her will also appear in court, ...

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

The European Union drugs regulator is set to authorise the use of two monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 patients in coming days, two EU sources told Reuters, in its first ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas on Tuesday renewed appeals to the public to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, amid a resurgence of the pandemic in many countries in Europe and an ...

Any technical adjustments needed for the CovScan application will be carried out, deputy minister Kyriacos Kokkinos said on the Tuesday, after local application to verify EUDCC certificates ran into sporadic ...