#coronavirus

The health ministry announced that 54 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory weekly testing of employees. ...

Greek hospital doctors went on a day-long strike on Tuesday and dozens marched in Athens to protest “suffocating” conditions at hospitals on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. With around 6,000 ...

Cyprus will receive more than 120,000 Covid vaccines in March, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Approximately 10,000 Pfizer vaccines are expected to be delivered in Cyprus each week next month, and ...

Europe’s drugs regulator said on Tuesday it was expecting to give an opinion before the summer on whether Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir can be used to treat COVID-19 patients who ...

The health ministry on Monday announced the death of one man from Covid-19 and 131 new infections from 34,190 tests, a positivity rate of 0.38 Per cent. Seventy-six people are currently being treated ...

The government on Monday held fast to its refusal to directly subsidise tenants suffering the economic impact of coronavirus-related restrictive mandates, insisting instead that offering landlords tax relief is the ...

Coronavirus rapid testing locations for Tuesday District Location Time Limassol Ayios Ioannis Eleimonos church 8.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m. Panos Solomonides cultural centre 8.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m. Andreas Themistocleous ...

By William James and Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out a phased plan on Monday to end England’s Covid-19 lockdown, offering a “cautious” approach to try ...

Close to 17,000 vaccination slots will become available on Tuesday for people 71 and above across the Republic, the health ministry said. People within the age group can set up an appointment ...

The cabinet will meet on Thursday to discuss the possible easing of the lockdown amid mounting speculation on what will change given the generally improved epidemiological situation although higher rates ...

The owner of a secret ‘illegal club’ in Larnaca will face a string of charges in court on March 23, Larnaca district court ruled on Monday, while a total of 17 people ...

Contact tracers have found increased transmission of the coronavirus within families and in the workplace, the health ministry said on Monday following a meeting between the minister, the contact tracing ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants a staggered plan to lift coronavirus restrictions that is linked to increased testing, she told a meeting of her Christian Democrats leadership committee according to ...

Parents are worried that online teaching is taking a toll on their children’s education, a survey by the Cyprus Institute of Statisticians published by the Cyprus News Agency on ...

The health ministry announced that its officials carried out 1,313 checks at businesses from Monday to Friday last week to ensure that coronavirus protocols are being adhered to. Along with the ...

Cyprus continues to carry out the most rapid coronavirus tests as a percentage of the population in the EU with a total of 202,614 tests between February 15 and 21, or 25,554 per 100,000 people, ...

The health ministry announced 107 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday from 35,028 PCR and rapid tests, giving a positivity rate of 0.3%. No new deaths occurred. The total to date remains at 229 ...

The health ministry has announced the testing locations for Monday as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (15 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 8.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m. “Panos ...

In 2019, the average salary of a civil servant was €40,000, for a private sector employee it was €20,000 While the official estimate that real GDP contracted by just over 5 per cent in 2020 ...

The next few days will be crucial when it comes to seeing how the epidemiological picture is unfolding, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. In a post on Facebook ...

Britain has started to drive down cases of the more infectious South African variant of coronavirus and will only emerge from lockdown in stages to make sure that does not ...

Three DJs and 14 other people were found at a “secret illegal club” in Larnaca on Saturday night, police said. The patrons of the establishment and the DJs were fined 300 euros ...

Booster vaccines to combat emerging Covid variants, and annual jabs for coronavirus can’t be ruled out, according to a government scientific adviser. Dr Christos Petrou, Associate Professor at the ...

All adults in Britain will be offered a first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday ahead of a planned ...