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Five deaths and 162 new cases of the coronavirus were announced on Monday, raising the total number of Covid deaths since the outbreak to 175. The health ministry said 199 people were in ...

The health ministry has announced Tuesday’s rapid test sites, which are included in the table below. Province Sampling points Hours Limassol Apostolos Loukas Church, Agios Athanasios (Agios Athanasios Refugee ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Monday warned that Cyprus could risk losing out on hundreds of millions in EU grants unless it reforms local government along certain parameters. Nouris informed ...

Authorities on Monday filed a separate case against two Syrian men, 22 and 25, suspected of killing a compatriot during a fight in Paphos last year. Nine other Syrians are also facing ...

Many Larnaca shopkeepers are “financially devastated” because of government measures against the coronavirus, the Larnaca-Famagusta branch of the small shopkeepers’ union (Povek) said on Monday. Branch president Kyriacos Ambizas painted ...

The death of the youngest victim from the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing attack – British Cypriot, Saffie Rose Roussos – could have been prevented, it was reported on Monday. Saffie, aged only eight, ...

The reopening of the two police stations at Ledra street and the one at Paphos gate after completion of renovation works will increase safety in the old town, Justice Minister ...

Strong winds on Monday afternoon stopped the search at sea for a 70-year-old woman who went missing when she went swimming in the Phinikoudes area in Larnaca on Sunday. The ...

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 ...

Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said on Monday he had a productive meeting at the presidential palace where he discussed his party’s conditions for backing the revised state budget for 2021 ...

The decision to go into lockdown in the north, announced on Saturday has been temporarily rescinded after the ‘government’ put its foot down citing the impact this would have on ...

Over 50 per cent of people over 80 have either received their first Covid-19 vaccine or are scheduled to receive it, senior health official Olga Kalakouta said on Monday. According to Kalakouta, ...

A total of 1,080 Pfizer vaccine doses were delivered to the Turkish Cypriot community on Monday morning through the bicommunal technical committee on health. The vaccines are part of the total ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday received the second dose of a Covid vaccine, some three weeks after the first jab. After spending the mandatory 15 minutes at Latsia health centre, where ...

The roads leading to Troodos are open only for vehicles with snow chains or four-wheel drives due to frost, while more snow is expected to fall during the day. Roads ...

Lost Vegas is teaming up with life-long British prisoner to raise funds for mental health charity An Ayia Napa-based band that stormed the iTunes charts in the UK last year, ...

Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival in Moscow on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last ...

Three deaths and 157 coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday by the health ministry. The deaths concern two men, aged 67 and 89, and a woman, 83, all with underlying conditions. Their cause of ...

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 ...