#coronavirus

The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered, and it is upending assumptions about the disease even ...

Despite increased hospitalisations, including young people in a serious condition, the state health services organisation Okypy on Monday reassured that the situation in public hospitals is manageable. “There are many ...

About 65 per cent of hospitality venues are currently in operation islandwide, while business is at around 50 cent, the head of one of the business associations representing the sector said on ...

Police booked 39 individuals and six businesses in Limassol, Paphos and Famagusta in the 24 hours until 6am on Monday, after 4,004 nationwide checks for coronavirus measures violations. Twenty people, including a business ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff said on Sunday he fears the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany could soar to 100,000 a day in about two months unless ...

A total of 202,781 adult persons remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, the ministry of health said in a press release. According to data released by the ministry, 71.7% of the adult population has ...

The pragmatic v the quixotic – there are lots of ways to divide people over Covid vaccines but Theo Panayides asks what is driving people to make a decision over getting ...

Willingly or not, we all put up with text messages and curfew, but it’s vaccinations that have become the hill to die on The debates surrounding Trump, Brexit, the ...

The ministry of health on Saturday announced 70 testing sites where the public can get a free rapid test. Results are given within 30 minutes or are sent by text message. A ...

Police said it carried out more than 3,700 checks in the past 24 hours and booked 30 people and 12 establishments for various violations of health and safety measures. According to a statement, officers ...

Close to 72 per cent of the adult population (over 18) has received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine while 63.2 per cent have completed their vaccination, the health ministry said ...

A new worldwide wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in China and Germany. A cyber attack targeting key South African ports. Events have conspired to drive global supply chains towards breaking ...

There were no deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday, as 895 new infections were detected after 76,273 tests, a positivity rate of 1.17 per cent. The ...

Police on Friday released a doctor arrested in connection with a large protest outside the presidential palace against Covid vaccinations and the government’s SafePass measures last Sunday that was ...

The health ministry announced a total of 74 rapid testing sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

A walk-in vaccination centre will operate at the former residence of the Paphos district officer from 8.30 am to 3.00 pm on Saturday to facilitate members of the public wishing to receive ...

Europe’s medicines regulator on Friday recommended approving the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in 12- to 17-year olds, paving the way for it to become the second shot ...

Israeli politicians members of the country’s coronavirus cabinet, a high-level ministerial forum tasked with leading the government’s pandemic response, has voted during a parliamentary session to add Cyprus, ...

EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner European Commission’s Stella Kyriakides will pay a visit to Cyprus on Monday as part of ongoing efforts to support national vaccination campaigns to ...

Eleven residents of a Larnaca care home who tested positive for coronavirus are contacts of a member of the staff there, the health ministry said on Friday. The clarification follows ...

The majority of elderly patients with coronavirus who are currently hospitalised at Larnaca general hospital are unvaccinated, the facility’s director Dr Adamos Hadjipanayis told the Cyprus News Agency on ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) will be listed as a very rare side effect of Covid-19 vaccine Janssen and a warning will be included in the product information to raise awareness among ...

Australia’s New South Wales state on Friday reported its biggest daily rise in new COVID-19 cases this year, prompting a tighter lockdown in Sydney in what state officials called ...

The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 has dropped to 39 percent in Israel, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday. The Pfizer vaccine is also only 41 per ...