Coronavirus: Cabinet lowers booster jab age to 60 (updated)
Cabinet on Friday approved the administration of Covid booster shots to people aged 60 and over and to additional vulnerable groups of the population. The...
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Coronavirus: WHO advises additional Covid shot for immunocompromised people
The World Health Organization on Monday recommended that immunocompromised people be given an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine, due to their higher risk of breakthrough...
Coronavirus: Walk-in jab event in Limassol on Sunday
People of all ages who wish to be vaccinated against Covid or receive their booster shot, will be able to do so on Sunday at...
Moderna plans African vaccine plant as drugmakers urged to help poorest
Moderna plans to invest up to $500 million to build a factory in Africa to make up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines each...
Coronavirus: More than 6,600 get third jab
Over 6,600 people have received a Covid-19 booster jab in Cyprus, the health ministry announced on Sunday. Across the country, 6,615 people received a booster...
Pfizer/BioNTech say data show Covid-19 vaccine safe and protective in kids
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Monday their COVID-19 vaccine induced a robust immune response in 5 to 11 year olds, and they plan to...
Coronavirus: Almost 2,800 have received third shot
Almost 2,800 people have received the third dose of the anti-coronavirus vaccine, including state health professionals, the health ministry announced on Saturday. According to a...
Coronavirus: First-dose vaccination coverage reaches almost 80%
Vaccination coverage in adults across Cyprus with the first dose, has reached almost 80 per cent, the health ministry said on Sunday. Specifically, where people...
Coronavirus: Six nuns, three priests hospitalised with Covid, all unvaxxed
Six nuns and three priests are among the 117 people being treated in hospitals for coronavirus, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on...
Coronavirus: Paediatrics chief says received death threat over vaccines (updated)
Paediatrics chief at Makarios children’s hospital Avraam Elia said on Wednesday that despite receiving death threats he has not been deterred from doing his duty....
Neophytos accuses Isaias of acting as a media puppet
As Archbishop Chrysostomos harangued members of the clergy for urging their flock not to get vaccinated for the coronavirus, two of the bishops on opposite...
Coronavirus: Remaining school issues being ironed out
Eighty per cent of school staff have received the Covid vaccine Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday during a House committee briefing. Prodromou said...
Coronavirus: Health minister wants list of anti vax doctors
Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said he wants a list of the doctors who are advising their patients against receiving the coronavirus vaccination. A major bump...
More contaminants found in Moderna vaccines in Japan- NHK
Contaminants were found in Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccines at a large-scale vaccination centre in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture, suspending inoculations, public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday....
Coronavirus: More doses of mRNA vaccines ordered ahead of third jab decision (updated)
Cyprus has ordered additional Moderna and Pfizer shots as the booster anti-coronavirus jab will be administered using mRNA vaccines, regardless of which jab people initially...
EU expects key data on Novavax vaccine around October
The European Union expects Novavax to submit data needed for the possible approval of its COVID-19 vaccine around October, an EU official told Reuters on...
Coronavirus: Health ministry seeking ICU staff abroad
The health ministry is trying to find intensivists abroad to staff intensive care units (ICUs), which were struggling because of the high number of serious...
Coronavirus: Police investigating fake news claiming death of child aged 12 from jab
The police cybercrime unit said Thursday it was investigating a fake post on social media claiming a 12-year-old child had died in Limassol a day...
Tsitsipas refuses to take vaccine unless it becomes mandatory on tour
World number three Stefanos Tsitsipas said he would only get the COVID-19 vaccine if it became mandatory to compete in tennis. While the men’s ATP Tour has publicly encouraged players to get vaccinated,...
FDA authorizes Covid-19 vaccine boosters for the immunocompromised
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems....