#coronavirus

The health ministry has announced 46 rapid testing sites for Tuesday. People need to present proof of identity to get tested, such as ID, passport, or driver’s licence. District Locations ...

Scientists warned people on Monday not to become complacent about protection from the coronavirus because of the high vaccination numbers, as the highly transmissible Delta variant made achieving herd immunity ...

The health ministry on Monday issued new country guidelines for travel, downgrading Sweden and Belgium from Orange to Red, among others, and Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Norway from Green to ...

Australia’s biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, while residents in Melbourne face a nightly curfew and a further two weeks of ...

The health ministry announced there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 but said 165 people tested positive from 14,008 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.18 per cent. The death ...

Police said on Sunday that in the preceding 24hours they had carried out 6,105 checks islandwide looking for Covid violators. Most of the violations concerned not wearing a mask or being ...

All 16- and 17-year-olds in England will be offered their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by Aug. 23, according to a target set by British Health Secretary Sajid Javid. Javid said on ...

One death from coronavirus and 401 new positives cases were announced on Saturday, out of 54,496 PCR and rapid tests. The positivity rate is 0.74 per cent. The death was of a woman, ...

A 53-year-old Larnaca-based doctor was remanded for another five days on Saturday on suspicion of issuing fake Covid vaccination certificates to his patients. Larnaca district court remanded the doctor for ...

Australian police hiked fines for people breaking lockdown rules in Sydney and the rest of its home state on Saturday and strict stay-at-home orders were extended statewide amid a record ...

A 21-year-old restaurant employee was arrested for showing a fake SafePass to officers early on Saturday during daily checks for violations of coronavirus measures. Police were conducting checks at a ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 419 more had tested positive from 54,173 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.77 per cent. The death ...

Reluctant French people lined up to get vaccinated as authorities were set to get tougher on the mandatory health pass for entering restaurants, trains and public places. From this week, ...

The government has come up with a temporary arrangement for Turkish Cypriots to obtain an EU green pass. Turkish Cypriots currently face problems as regards travel abroad since the vaccination ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Saturday, 51 in total. To get tested, people need to present identification such as ID, passport, or driver’s licence. There will ...

The health ministry on Friday announced clarifications for the procedure for pregnant women who are not recommended to be vaccinated for medical reasons need to make to be able to ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems. The amended https://www....

Twenty-seven patients are currently hospitalised at the two Covid-19 ward in Paphos General and all but one are unvaccinated, according to the hospital director. In addition, the ages of patients ...

Police said on Friday they had issued fines to 28 individuals and five establishments in the past 24 hours for various violations of Covid health and safety measures. The force said it ...

A total of 76.3 per cent of the adult population had received the first jab against the coronavirus and 69.9 per cent were fully vaccinated by August 12, the health ministry said on ...

About 90 per cent of patients with coronavirus who are hospitalised at the Famagusta referral hospital for Covid have not been vaccinated, Amalia Hadjiyianni, the facility’s scientific director said on ...

Hundreds more defence personnel will deploy next week to Sydney to help enforce the city’s lockdown after authorities on Friday reported the biggest daily rise in COVID-19 cases from ...

In at least one meeting, members of the Covid scientific advisory committee said most transmission of the virus occurred within households rather than in retail or hospitality venues, legal filings ...

As a tourist destination, Paphos has been irrevocably hurt from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the trade and industry chamber said. Marios Stylianou told the Cyprus ...