#coronavirus

Governments have been making COVID-19 shots mandatory for health workers and other high-risk groups, pushed by a sharp upturn in infections caused by the Delta variant and a slowdown in ...

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 ...

Supermarkets on Friday reiterated their objection to the local CovScan app to verify EUDCC certificates, as they pressed the health ministry to clarify how the system will work, and who ...

Latvia’s parliament voted on Friday to ban lawmakers who refuse COVID-19 vaccine from voting on legislature and participating in discussions. Latvia, which has one of the lowest vaccination rates ...

The youngest Covid patient at Famagusta reference hospital is 32 years old and the oldest 74, with an average age of 55, the facility’s scientific director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Friday. Hadjiyianni ...

There has been a 39 per cent increase in the 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate in covid cases, with Paphos and Famagusta recording the biggest rise, the health ministry said on Friday. ...

A Nicosia nightclub was fined €8,000 for violating coronavirus protocols, following more than 1,000 checks in the last 24 hours in the capital, police said early on Friday. According to police, the club ...

Austria is days away from placing millions of people not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on lockdown, as daily infections are at a record high and intensive-care units are increasingly strained, ...

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 ...