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Asymptomatic, bored and craving salt, Kyriacos Iacovides describes his stint in isolation after returning from the UK with coronavirus. I arrived from the UK on January 3, aware that I would ...

The Greek Cypriot leadership must come to its senses. The time for acrobatics is over In my article on Sunday, December 20, I said: “I dare to predict that in February ...

Are we forgetting the young, in the frenzied emphasis on protecting the old during the virus? Or was it all going downhill anyway? It’s not the kind of thing ...

The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly managing the endeavour against Covid-19. ...

The behaviour of some public sector unions during the pandemic has been a disgrace. Instead of helping the government deal with the emergency situation, they have been going out of ...

THINGS could not get any worse for Prez Nik than they did in the last week, when he ended up having to defend himself against scurrilous rumours that most of ...

An electoral college adapted to Cyprus would allow a political dynamic between Greek and Turkish Cypriots to develop The UN Secretary-General complained there is no agreement on the model for ...

The health ministry on Saturday announced one death from Covid-19 and 202 new cases from 8,014 PCR and rapid tests. The death concerned a man aged 70 with underlying conditions who died at ...

Extreme weather conditions led to power cuts in different areas in Limassol and rockslides on two different roads, authorities said on Saturday. According to the electricity authority’s website, 12 areas ...

Cyprus recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases in the last 14 days according to the latest health ministry’s national report. Between December 30 and January 12, the health ministry diagnosed 5,907 people ...

An updated epidemiological risk assessment of countries for Covid was issued on Saturday by the health ministry that leaves only four countries in Category A – those considered safest for travel, ...

The advisory committee on coronavirus is already mulling a possible relaxation of the lockdown, but any decision will be contingent on fewer hospitalisations, committee head Constantinos Tsioutis said. “The most ...

Even if we had not heard the statements by the party leaders after Thursday’s national council meeting that discussed President Anastasiades’ participation in the informal five-party conference on the ...

The health ministry said Friday that that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer would temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe of its vaccine against Covid-19 while it upgrades its production capacity. A total of 3,510 ...

The health ministry announced 244 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday from a total of 11,163 PCR and rapid tests. The total number of cases since March has reached 28,609 while Cyprus is ...

The interior ministry quietly issued a decree disallowing any more Syrian refugees from settling in the coastal village of Chlorakas in Paphos, as numbers were causing a huge shift in ...

Unless the new initiative by the UN Secretary-General yields results, a “tsunami” of developments is expected in the summer that could see Varosha being lost, Disy chief Averof Neophytou has ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar kick started the vaccinations against coronavirus in the north on Friday after receiving the first jab of Chinese firm’s Sinovac batch sent this week ...

Cyprus could default if the revised budget is rejected anew by parliament and it loses its investment grade rating, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday. “Apart from not being ...

Cyprus ranked second highest for coronavirus testing per 100,000 population amongst the 29 members of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), with Denmark ranking first. Cyprus’ 7181 tests per 100,000 over 14 ...

Health officials have assured MPs that efforts are being made to secure greater vaccine doses for the coronavirus, which until now have been limited to a trickle. Olga Kalakouta, acting ...

Under pressure from the political parties, to address the issue of setting a minimum wage in exchange for their support for the 2021 budget, the government came up with a declaration ...

Three more elderly people have died of Covid-19, while 241 positives were detected in island-wide testing, authorities said Thursday. The latest deceased are all men: a 79-year-old with underlying conditions who ...

Despite the drop recently in coronavirus cases, the positivity rate remains high, thus it is imperative to continue observing the measures in place, head of the advisory committee on coronavirus ...