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The health ministry will investigate complaints that people in non-priority groups jumped the queue for vaccinations, minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Friday. The statement follows complaints by organised patients, among ...

The health ministry has published a Q&A on the new measures to contain the spread of coronavirus. These will come into force at 5.00 am on Sunday, January 10 and ...

The president on Friday hosted a meeting of party leaders and the House president who were briefed about the changes to the state budget whose original bill was rejected by ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday announced tougher measures and only two outings per day with permission through SMS. The curfew remains from 9.00 pm to 5.00 am. The new measures will ...

Global vaccinations are the only hope to rebuild tourism for the second half of 2021, the Famagusta branch of the Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) said on Friday. This year remains uncertain, “...

Britain’s government will require people entering England to present a negative COVID-19 test result on arrival starting next week to protect against new strains of the coronavirus from other ...

A three-week ‘lockdown lite’ seems the likeliest scenario today when the government announces extra curbs on movement – including a return to the SMS system –aiming to contain the spread of ...

The pandemic has been disastrous for schoolchildren, whose education has been continually disrupted since last spring. Schools closed for more than two months, public schools were completely unprepared for distance ...

An environmental impact assessment study concerning the construction of a church in the grounds of Paphos town hall has been completed and uploaded to Paphos municipality’s website, according to ...

Two more people died of Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the death toll to 140, while authorities announced that 427 people tested positive for the coronavirus. The latest deaths were a 79-year-old woman ...

Turkish vice president Fuat Oktay is expected in the north within the coming days, reports said on Thursday. According to Kibris Postasi, Oktay’s arrival was announced by head of ...

The health ministry on Thursday issued a Q&A answering frequently asked questions about Comirnaty, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine currently administered in Cyprus. The Q&A was based on ...

Educational programmes for primary school pupils will be shown on state-owned television channel Rik on Thursday and Friday, as part of a joint initiative by the education ministry and the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday there will be an orderly transition when Joe Biden takes office as president in less than two weeks, after Congress certified the ...

The finance and labour ministries are working on revising the support schemes ahead of a new lockdown, expected to be announced on Friday as a means of further curbing the ...

Two men who attacked police officers on duty at Larnaca hospital early on Thursday are wanted while a third was arrested. According to police, the three men brought an injured ...

Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a stunning bid to overturn his election defeat. But after hours of chaos in which ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced four deaths from Covid-19 and another 573 cases through a total of 10, 201 PCR and rapid tests. The deaths concerned four men, two aged 76, one aged 79, ...

In a letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he supports an informal five-party meeting to determine whether or not there is common ground between ...

A second COVID-19 vaccine won regulatory approval in Europe on Wednesday and the Netherlands belatedly launched its vaccination campaign as European countries accelerated a patchy drive to defeat the coronavirus ...

A total of 3,901 people were vaccinated against Covid-19 since December 27 the health ministry announced on Wednesday. These were people included in the first phase of the vaccination plan and comprised ...

The cabinet has changed the scheduling for its meeting on Thursday to consider new measures, and the meeting will now take place on Friday, the presidential palace announced. The move ...

In 2019, over one fifth of people in Cyprus said they could not afford to heat their homes adequately in winter, third worst across the bloc, according to Eurostat. This was ...

The European Medicines Authority (EMA) will try to reach a decision on the approval of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, after failing to take a decision two days earlier. ...