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Health authorities on Thursday announced four more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while 89,188 – a record number of daily tests tracked 1,046 positives to the virus. The latest deaths were: a woman aged 74, ...

Italian luxury boss Brunello Cucinelli is offering six months of paid leave to a handful of employees who have refused to vaccinate in order to protect workers who have taken ...

Working from his one-room apartment near Paris airport, Jerome Rodrigues has been trying to re-invigorate a Yellow Vest protest movement that two years ago challenged President Emmanuel Macron’s rule ...

The health ministry is urging people who wish to reschedule their appointment for the second Covid-19 vaccination jab to call the dedicated helplines at 22 60 54 00, 97 71 01 01 and 97 71 02 02. The lines will be operative ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites, 61 in total, for Friday. People need to present identification. District Testing Sites Operating Hours Limassol (18 sites) Grigori Axentiou Square, Limassol 7:30 a.m....

China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have ...

Ivermectin, an existing drug against parasites including head lice, has had a chequered history when it comes to treating COVID-19. The bulk of studies so far show there’s not ...

The Delta variant has been detected in 100 per cent of the most recently tested samples of the coronavirus, according to the latest data released by the Ministry of Health. Of ...

Britain’s supermarkets, wholesalers and hauliers were struggling on Thursday to ensure stable food and fuel supplies after an official health app told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolate ...

The Bishop of Morphou has issued a statement in support of a doctor arrested by police in connection with a large protest last Sunday by people opposing the government’s ...

A 47-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the protest last Sunday at the Presidential Place and the attacks at Sigma TV, police said on Thursday. The woman was ...

Three deaths from coronavirus and 1,014 new cases were announced on Wednesday out of 73,098 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.39 per cent. The deaths were two men, aged 78 and 82, ...

Bookings from UK tourists in Paphos are still very low, despite the UK government decision that fully vaccinated Britons returning from medium-risk amber list countries, such as Cyprus, will no ...

Croatia will impose obligatory Covid-19 tests for visitors coming from Britain, Russia and Cyprus from July 26, the state health institute said on Wednesday. “Due to the worsening of the epidemiological ...

So far 70 per cent of the adult population has received at least the first dose of a vaccine, the health ministry said on Wednesday. According to the data released by ...

The health ministry announced a total of 62 rapid testing sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

An epidemiologist who spoke at Sunday’s demonstration, a protest held primarily against the expanded SafePass requirements, is being held by police for eight days. He has not been charged ...

Where’s your health pass? Visitors heading to museums, cinemas or swimming pools in France will be denied entry from Wednesday if they cannot show the document that proves they ...

Health authorities expressed concern on Wednesday over the increasing number of Covid admissions, which appeared to get out of hand, as people were forced to wait at home to be ...

Australia’s two largest states reported sharp increases in new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, a blow to hopes that lockdown restrictions would be lifted with more than half the country’...

One death and 995 new coronavirus cases were announced on Tuesday, by the health ministry. A 76-year-old man is the latest death from Covid-19. So far 391 deaths were recorded: 260 men and 131 ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Tuesday he is willing to fire archbishopric employees who choose to remain unvaccinated after returning from their holidays. Speaking to CyBC, the archbishop said that out ...

The health ministry said on Tuesday it will facilitate members of the public who have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine abroad to get the second one here ...

Health professionals will be offered incentives to help staff overstretched Covid-19 clinics at public hospitals, state health services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday. Meanwhile non-coronavirus patients in state hospitals will ...