#coronavirus

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 ...

The majority of side effects reported by people who received an anti-Covid-19 vaccine in Cyprus concern those who received the Pfizer jab, figures presented by the health ministry showed on ...

Two-thirds of India’s population have antibodies against the coronavirus, according to data released on Tuesday from a survey of 29,000 people across the nation conducted in June and July. The ...

The health ministry announced a total of 64 rapid test sites that will operate around the island on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

The education ministry announced on Tuesday that all students and staff members, as well as visitors to universities in Cyprus will be required to have a SafePass – or any other ...

London’s High Court on Tuesday ruled Britain did not act unlawfully over its so-called traffic lights system for travellers entering Britain in a case brought by Manchester Airports Group (...

More than half of Australia’s 25 million people were under lockdown on Tuesday after a third state adopted movement curbs to rein in the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus. ...

Drivers and passengers on public transport must present a SafePass starting from Tuesday, the transport ministry has clarified. The ministry issued a written statement with the recent guidelines for public ...

The decree enforcing the latest SafePass measures in all indoor and outdoor areas with more than 20 people comes into force on Tuesday. Beaches, parks, linear parks, dams, nature paths and ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that English nightclubs and other venues with large crowds will require patrons to present proof of full vaccination from the end of ...