#lockdown

Cyprus has entered a lockdown again in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus on the island and contain hospital admissions. The new lockdown is in effect on Monday, ...

Around 50 people gathered outside the presidential palace on Sunday to demonstrate against vaccines, police said on Sunday. The demonstration took place between 12-1pm from members of a group called ‘...

Unions asked for more help on Saturday for the businesses that will be hit by the new lockdown that will come into effect on Monday, while political parties criticised the ...

The health ministry on Friday released a list of clarifications following the new lockdown announced earlier in the day. According to the ministry, private and public nurseries and kindergartens must ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday a lockdown “is a scenario that remains on the table” should the number of daily Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations increase in the coming ...

The Japanese government plans to extend a state of emergency to combat COVID-19 for Tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures until March 21, two weeks longer than originally scheduled, Prime Minister Yoshihide ...

Greece extended lockdown restrictions on Friday to more areas of the country as the COVID-19 pandemic showed no signs of waning exactly one year after its first coronavirus infection was ...

London Zoo should be teeming with children released from school by half-term holidays. But instead, the monkeys’ pranks are unobserved, King Cobra is coiled friendless in the reptile house and ...

Greece on Friday extended the full lockdown imposed on metropolitan Athens earlier this week to more regions of the country in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19 infections, ...

Greece on Friday tightened lockdown restrictions in parts of the country including capital Athens to halt the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, after a surge of infections in recent days. ...

While diaries can be intensely private, one shared project aims to bring people together by reflecting on what we are all going through Ah the diary, a teenager’s most ...

Ali Pilli, the north’s ‘health minister’, said that the lockdown will help stem the surge of coronavirus cases – but he also criticised the mass movement of people. He said ...

The cabinet will meet later today to draw up a plan of action for the coming months for the expected gradual lifting of coronavirus restrictions. One of the most contentious ...

But most are adhering to the rules Over this past week, police fined a number of supermarkets for flouting the lockdown’s restrictive measures by selling non-essential items such as ...

Business after business is poised to fail, but it’s been a bumper year for food delivery services By Jonathan Shkurko The extraordinary events of the coronavirus pandemic in the ...

By Kyriacos Iacovides The reopening of schools, which was scheduled for February 1 when the latest lockdown was announced, could be further delayed if the scientific advisory team deems it unsafe, ...

When the health minister and the scientific advisory team submit their proposals at Monday’s presidential palace meeting about how to proceed after January 31, the date decrees on the lockdown ...

Cyprus saw its highest number of Covid-19 hospitalisations since the outbreak earlier on Monday, while more admissions are expected in the upcoming days, the spokesperson of the state health services ...

The decision to go into lockdown in the north, announced on Saturday has been temporarily rescinded after the ‘government’ put its foot down citing the impact this would have on ...

The health ministry on Tuesday issued further clarifications as regards the lockdown and permissions to go out. According to the ministry, the purchase of alcoholic beverages from restaurants is not ...

Schools, gyms, and indoor dining facilities will remain open at the British bases despite such services being shuttered across the Republic. As of Tuesday morning, the bases have recorded 76 Covid-19 ...

More than 450,000 text messages were sent for permission for movement on Sunday, the first day of the lockdown. According to Deputy Minister for Innovation and Digital Policy, Kyriacos Kokkinos, no ...

The streets and highways of the capital were deserted at midday on Sunday, one of the busiest days of the week for Old Nicosia as the new lockdown kicked in ...

Greece on Friday extended some lockdown curbs to contain the spread of the coronavirus until Jan. 18, Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias said in a televised briefing. The country, in ...