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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 ...

Unvaccinated people are 16 times more likely to end up in intensive care units or die from Covid -19, Australia‘s New South Wales state said in a report, with officials ...

Police on Tuesday said they issued 15 fines following 2,540 checks for the implementation of coronavirus protocols in the last 24 hours. Most checks, 1,037, were carried out in Nicosia, where two people were ...

New Zealand beefed up security measures at its parliament on Tuesday as thousands of people gathered to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and government lockdowns aimed at controlling the pandemic. ...

A person’s vaccination certificate is only valid for one year from the date of the first dose having been administered, according to the latest Q&A info sheet ...

Packed intercontinental flights touched down and people embraced relatives at land borders on Monday after the United States lifted restrictions imposed on travellers from much of the world when the ...

The health ministry announced 284 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday. No deaths were reported. The death toll remains 576, of whom 368 were men and 208 women. There are 67 people being treated for ...

Bahrain was the only country upgraded to the green category of destinations deemed safer for travelling as regards the spread of Covid-19. The latest updates announced by the health ministry, ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday a single dose of its antibody cocktail reduced the risk of contracting COVID-19 by 81.6% in the two to eight months period following the drug’...

All eligible people must carry proof of identity (e.g. Identity Card, Driver’s Licence, Passport, etc.), for identification purposes. On Tuesday, 9 November 2021, the testing units under the control programme ...

The CovScan application trial period began on Monday as businesses have been mandated that by November 22 they must scan each patron’s SafePass using it. The move, announced earlier this ...

A supermarket was fined €4,000 because customers were not being kept further enough apart and a restaurant was fined €650 as for the second time it was found not checking that customers ...

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 250 million on Monday as some countries in eastern Europe experience record outbreaks, even as the Delta variant surge eases and many countries resume trade and tourism. ...

Around 65 per cent of Cypriots believe their lives will return to normal after the pandemic, according to a poll published on Sunday but the majority of those think it will ...

The health ministry announced on Sunday there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 while 133 positives were recorded from 39,447 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.34 per cent. There ...

The following are the free testing sites for Monday. District Sampling points Hours Limassol (5 points) University Square (behind TEPAK Rector’s Office) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cultural Events Hall, ...

Britain will start to roll out Merck’s molnupiravir COVID-19 antiviral pill through a drug trial later this month, Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Adviser at the UK Health Security Agency ...