#coronavirus

Cabinet on Thursday approved the administration of booster jabs against Covid-19 to people 50 and over and to everyone with severe obesity, regardless of age. It also approved the proposal by ...

In today’s episode, we hear that Cyprus has topped 125,000 reported Covid-19 cases. Still on the virus, a father has lost a case to vaccinate his two teenage children despite ...

Police booked 22 people after more than 3,000 nationwide checks were carried out for the implementation of Covid protocols in the last 24 hours. Most people were booked for failing to wear a ...

The number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began topped 125,000 on Wednesday when 188 new infections were detected. No deaths from the virus were reported. The 188 new cases were detected out ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on Wednesday alerted the public that a malicious email on booster jabs doing the rounds is misleading people into thinking it was sent by the ...

A total of 21 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

In the first case of its kind, Paphos district court has rejected a father’s request to allow his children to be vaccinated despite their mother’s objections. This is ...

Countries to emerge from the pandemic first will have had some combination of high rates of vaccination and natural immunity among people who were infected with the coronavirus As the ...

Two businesses in Paphos and Limassol as well as 21 individuals were fined for violating coronavirus measures, police said on Wednesday. A Limassol-based petrol station was booked €500 for allowing an employee ...

In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc (TXT.N) and Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N) remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance ...

One Covid-19 death and 249 new coronavirus infections were reported by the health ministry on Tuesday evening, raising the death toll to 575. There are currently 70 patients receiving treatment for Covid-19 in ...

Greece reported 6,700 new coronavirus infections in the preceding 24 hours on Tuesday, breaking a previous single-day record of 5,449 that was recorded on Monday. This took the total infections to 754,451 since the ...

The United States is set to roll out Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5 to 11 this week and the shots could be administered as soon as ...

A total of 24 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 ...

Pfizer Inc on Tuesday forecast better-than-expected $29 billion in sales from its COVID-19 vaccine for 2022 and said it was seeking to sign more deals with countries for the shot that it ...

Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) on Tuesday raised the full-year sales forecast for its COVID-19 vaccine by 7.5 per cent to $36 billion, as it signs deals with countries for booster doses and ...

Religion and science should be kept separate, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Tuesday as he got a booster shot, and called on everyone to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The archbishop was ...

The health ministry announced on Tuesday that arrangements will be made to provide booster shots against the coronavirus to bedridden patients at home. This refers primarily to people who received ...

Stepping up measures against the coronavirus is not on the cards right now, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Tuesday, though concerns have been voiced over the recent uptick in ...

A mobile vaccination unit will operate in Palechori this Saturday to assist the anti-coronavirus vaccination of residents in rural areas, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The unit will operate ...

One business and 18 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus measures after 2,487 checks in the government-controlled areas. Most checks, 1,069, were carried out by officers in the capital who booked one person ...

Authorities will for the time being impose no additional covid-related restrictions, relying primarily on the ongoing mass vaccination drive to deal with the pandemic, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said Monday. ...

The EU is close to changing the criteria or scrapping travel rules adopted because of the coronavirus pandemic altogether, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Monday. The minister was replying ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Tuesday, 20 in total in all districts. To get tested, people need to present an ID, passport or a driver’s licence ...