Coronavirus: Death toll revised, eight added for August, one for last December
The health ministry on Thursday revised its Covid-19 death tally, adding to the count nine more people who had not been included at the time...
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Our View: Rational thought has been another casualty of the pandemic
Apart from the loss of lives, the pandemic has also caused a loss of reason among those that govern us. Covid-19 has had a disastrous...
Coronavirus: report shows Covid deaths falling in Cyprus
Cyprus has seen a significant drop in Covid-19 deaths despite an increased positivity rate, the health ministry announced on Friday. Between February 19 and February...
Coronavirus: Grim January follows deadly December
It has been a grim January, with 61 coronavirus-related deaths so far, 24 of them in one week alone, according to figures published by the...
Coronavirus: Last week the deadliest so far (updated)
Last week 22 people with coronavirus died, making this the deadliest week since the beginning of the pandemic, the latest data released by the health...
Coronavirus: 30 people have died from Covid so far this month
Thirty people who tested positive for the coronavirus have died so far in December, 18 in the past week alone, the health ministry said on...
Our View: Results from Covid tests can be hit-and-miss
It is rather surprising that it’s taken this long for families in Cyprus to publicly declare that they are not convinced their loved ones who...
Coronavirus: families raise questions over deaths classed as ‘Covid’
Hard questions are being raised by the families of three people declared by authorities as deceased from Covid-19 last week. These concern a 54-year-old woman...
Coronavirus: Why have so many British Cypriots died?
Cypriots in the UK try to understand why the virus has hit them so disproportionately hard Harrowing stories of Cypriots dying in Britain from Covid-19...
Coronavirus: Cyprus’ fatality rate at 1.8 per cent as of April 28
As of April 28, 15 people had died from Covid-19 in Cyprus, according to the latest epidemiological bulletin released Thursday. The reported case fatality rate...
Three more flu-related deaths recorded
Three more people with underlying health problems have died from type A flu in the past 48 hours, raising the number of flu-linked casualties to...
Cyprus concerned over serious escalation of situation in Gaza
The Republic of Cyprus maintains the position that the final status of Jerusalem is to be determined through negotiations, noting that it is concerned over...
Coal mine deaths climb to 23 in southwest Pakistan – officials
By Gul Yousafzai The death toll from Saturday’s coal mine blast and landslides in southwest Pakistan climbed to 23 on Sunday, officials said, after ending...
Russia and US air strikes ‘caused mass civilian deaths in Syria’
Air strikes by Russia and a US-led coalition killed civilians in Syriaon a large scale last year, while the Assad government carried out unlawful chemical weapon...
Typhoon leaves flooding, four dead in Japan, moves out to sea
A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of...
Eleven killed in attack on Burkina Faso military post
Ten soldiers and a gendarme in northern Burkina Faso were killed on Friday in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a military post, the army...
Fresh protests in the north over bus deaths (update 3)
Thousands of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets on Tuesday to protest the deaths of three people – two teenage pupils and their bus driver...
Two teenage girls, driver dead in school bus collision with truck [VIDEO]
Two sixteen-year-old girls and the driver of a school bus taking them to school died on Tuesday morning, after colliding with a truck on...
Thirteen workers trapped, three dead, in Turkish copper mine after landslide
Rescue teams sought to free 13 workers trapped in a copper mine in southeast Turkey on Friday after it was hit by a landslide that...
Factory blaze kills at least 13 Indian garment workers as they slept
At least 13 garment workers were killed after a fire broke out in a factory on the outskirts of the Indian capital, police and witnesses...