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Brazil forward Neymar has been sidelined after testing positive for Covid-19, his club Santos said in a statement as quoted by Brazilian media. The 33-year-old began showing symptoms on Thursday ...

RSV, coronavirus and influenza virus cases increased hospital bed occupancy throughout December and the holiday season, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Virology at the Medical School of the University of ...

There are certain phrases that Wachuka Gichohi finds difficult to hear after enduring four years of living with long COVID, marked by debilitating fatigue, pain, panic attacks and other symptoms ...

European Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides on Tuesday announced a €2 million project aimed at “tackling” long Covid in the European Union. The European Commission said the project will focus on ...

A World Health Organization official stressed on Tuesday that mpox, regardless of whether it is the new or old strain, is not the new COVID, as authorities know how to ...

Hospitals across Cyprus are on standby to deal with cases of Covid-19, which according to Health Minister Michael Damianos, are “slightly increased”, while the overall situation is deemed to be “...

A total of 50 patients positive with Covid-19 were being treated in public hospitals on Tuesday, Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said. The situation does not raise any concerns as none of ...

Officials would do better to stop blaming misinformation, apologise for clearly illiberal measures during the pandemic, and try to reassure us that the vaccine situation is being monitored Covid vaccines ...

Hospitals have seen an increase in influenza A and B with fewer cases of Covid and RSV, the director of medical services said on Friday. Elisavet Constantinou told the Cyprus ...

Flu and Covid jabs are now available at walk-in vaccination centres as the ministry of health rolled out a new programme on Monday. Vaccination centres will operate nationwide from from 8...

Epidemiologist Petros Kararyiannis on Saturday appealed to the public, especially the elderly and vulnerable groups, to get vaccinated to protect themselves from Covid-19. The Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Virology ...

Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia remains 95 per cent occupied with young patients suffering from respiratory infections, flu and some Covid 19, but mainly with RSV, the director of the paediatric ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has left a deep imprint on the psyche of the nation, according to the latest report of the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, which was handed over on ...

In recent weeks, Cyprus has witnessed a notable uptick in cases of both viral and bacterial infections, indicating a potential continuation of the trend. Medical professionals on Thursday have reported ...

More children than usual were off school sick on Monday, the first day of school after the Christmas holidays. Education ministry’s secondary education director Elias Markadjis said on Tuesday ...

Hospitalisations of patients with Covid-19 have increased by almost in a third in the last week, Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. Charilaou was speaking to CyBC radio and ...

The scientific committee monitoring Covid-19 was back in action on Wednesday. Its members met Health Minister Dr Popi Kanari to discuss the increase of Covid infections recorded in the last ...

Human Rights Commissioner Maria Lottides decried “rights violations” and “infringements on constitutionally guaranteed freedoms” during the Covid-19 pandemic in her annual report. The report, which was submitted to President Nikos ...

Negative Covid tests and mask use will be mandatory in nursing homes, hospitals, outpatient clinics, dentists, and facilities for vulnerable groups, a meeting of the Covid-19 scientific advisory committee with ...

There has been an increase in people with Covid-19 being hospitalised in Cyprus in recent days, according to state health services organisation (Okypy) press officer Charalambos Charilaou. Charilaou was speaking ...

Life expectancy in Cyprus has fallen from 82.4 years in 2020 to 81.7 years in 2022 after dropping to a low of 81.3 years in 2021, according to an EU health report. Despite the drop, life ...

Recent weeks have witnessed a surge in Covid-19 cases across Cyprus, according to head of the epidemiological surveillance and control of infectious diseases unit, Christos Charalambous. Charalambous reported that 995 new ...

A fatal strain of cat Covid which has killed thousands of animals on the island has reached the UK, reports said on Sunday. According to the Daily Mail, scientists said ...

Decisions were made foolishly, chaotically and with a lot of expletives There is a judge-led inquiry going on in the UK about the central government’s response to the Covid 19 ...