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An outbreak of Covid-19 cases was reported on the largest Royal Navy warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, after the aircraft carrier stopped over in Limassol. According to UK-based media, at least 100 ...

Australian authorities extended a lockdown in Sydney on Wednesday by at least 14 days, after three weeks of initial restrictions failed to stamp out the biggest outbreak of COVID-19 this year ...

The Council of Ministers will meet on Friday and will discuss the possibility of new measures to stem the surge in coronavirus cases, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Wednesday. ...

Evidence has begun to emerge that COVID-19 had been circulating around the world earlier than the pathogen was first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. In mid-June, a ...

Owners of recreation centres on Tuesday threatened to stage nationwide protests unless the government amends a decree that sees business owners checking that customers and staff have a SafePass. After ...

The government’s draft legislation to replace the current Infectious Diseases Law, on which the health minister’s decrees have been based for the various measures taken relating to the ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced that two people died of Covid-19, while daily recorded coronavirus cases reached 1,081. The deaths concerned two men. The first, aged 86, passed away at Larnaca ...

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 ...

A sharp upturn in new coronavirus infections due to the highly contagious Delta variant and a slowdown in vaccination rates have pushed governments to make COVID–19 jabs mandatory for health ...

The ‘walk-in’ vaccinations centres where people will not need to book an appointment will start operating on Thursday the health ministry announced on Tuesday. According to health ministry spokesperson Margarita ...

The Pancyprian federation of labour (Peo) on Tuesday said the instructions for employers to forbid people from working unless they have a SafePass creates a climate of tension and instead ...

The deputy ministry for tourism on Tuesday released a list of hotels participating in its subsided holidays scheme for vaccinated people. The list includes more than 200 hotels in all districts ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced the launch of a Facebook page where people can submit questions to a scientific team regarding the pandemic and the coronavirus vaccines. The page ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in France rushed to set up appointments to get vaccinated against the coronavirus after the president warned that the unvaccinated would face restrictions aimed at ...

Four weeks ago, Israel was celebrating a return to normal life in its battle with COVID-19. After a rapid vaccination drive that had driven down coronavirus infections and deaths, Israelis ...

A portion of businesses have postponed events or suspended the operation of dine-in services saying they refuse to discriminate against unvaccinated people and check their customers for a SafePass. Following ...

The health ministry announced 832 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday out of 59,764 PCR and rapid tests, an overall positivity rate of 1.39 per cent. No deaths were reported, but 153 are ...

The latest expanded control measures taken relating to the coronavirus situation are both “legitimate and proportional”, the data protection commissioner said in a statement on Monday. In a statement, Data ...

The health ministry announced the testing sites for Tuesday, 59 in total. People need to present identification to get tested. District Testing Sites Operating Hours Limassol (16 sites) Grigori Axentiou Square, Limassol 7:30 ...

Over 200 hotels in Cyprus are taking part in the government scheme valid from July 16 to August 31 which subsidises tourist accommodation costs for those who have been vaccinated or recently recovered ...

Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW) and TSMC (2330.TW) said on Monday they had reached deals to buy 10 million doses of Germany’s BioNTech SE’s (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine, putting the ...

The rise in hospitalisations might lead the island to a “critical situation”, officials warned on Monday as a health ministry’s advisor said Cyprus is experiencing a fourth wave of ...

Thirteen per cent of people aged 16 and 17 had received their first coronavirus jab by July 8, health ministry spokesperson Margarita Kyriakou said on Monday. This follows the opening of the vaccination ...

The association of tourist businesses (Stek) said on Monday strict checks and vaccinations were the only ways to improve the island’s epidemiological condition and its position against other destinations. ...