#coronavirus

Despite up to 70 to 80 per cent reduction in road traffic during 2020 due to the lockdowns, road deaths only fell 25 per cent, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Thursday. Speaking at ...

Health authorities in some European countries are facing resistance to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after side-effects led hospital staff and other front-line workers to call in sick, putting extra strain ...

Scientists will meet on Thursday to advise South Africa’s government on its next steps after a study suggested the dominant local coronavirus variant may reduce antibody protection from Pfizer‘...

Airports will be reopening in March with a colour-coded health risk assessment system, the ministry of transport announced on Thursday. As of March 1, the existing category system will be replaced ...

The health ministry denied Thursday that procedures for the fast acquisition of rapid antigen tests were flawed, as the audit service launched a probe into one deal involving 400,000 assays procured ...

Denmark’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced a man to four months’ imprisonment for coughing at two police officers while shouting “corona” during a routine traffic stop in March last ...

The law authorising the council of ministers to issue decrees for the protection of public health is outdated and must be reconsidered, including demonstrations, lawyer Andreas Angelides said on Thursday. ...

Two thousand Astra Zeneca vaccines were delivered Thursday to the Turkish Cypriot community, part of the EU jabs reserved for Cyprus. The vaccines were delivered at 9am through the bicommunal ...

Two Canada-based researchers on Wednesday urged governments to delay administering the second dose of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine, which they said had an efficacy of 92.6% after the first dose, ...

Police conducted 8,302 checks for violations of coronavirus protocols during 24 hours from Wednesday until Thursday and booked 93 individuals, including one business owner, for breaching measures in place to contain the spread ...

Two thousand AstraZeneca vaccines will be delivered to Turkish Cypriot health authorities on Thursday, according to a spokesman. The spokesman said Turkish Cypriots have already received 4,500 PfizerBiontec jabs in January ...

Health authorities on Wednesday announced the death of two men from Covid-19 and the detection of 121 new infections from 25,414 tests, a positivity rate of 0.48 per cent. Since the start of ...

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

The danger of a third Covid-19 wave is real, according to Petros Karayiannis, professor of microbiology and molecular virology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. Karayiannis, who is also ...

Pfizer has not yet delivered to the European Union about 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that were due in December, EU officials said, leaving it about one-third short of the supplies ...

The fallout from Saturday’s protest – with footage of police violence shocking many observers – has engulfed the local political landscape but has also drawn an unusual amount of international scrutiny. ...

The health ministry on Wednesday published its updated epidemiological risk assessment for Covid-19, leaving three countries in Category A from which under new rules travellers must self-isolate for 72 hours and ...

With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, Cyprus welcomed only 3,889 tourists in January, a massive 95.5 per cent slump compared to last January’s 85,622 tourist arrivals, according to figures published by the ...

The Dutch government raced on Wednesday to prepare legislation to keep a nighttime curfew in place after a court ordered it to scrap the controversial COVID-19 measure which has become ...

Bahrain has launched a digital COVID-19 vaccine passport, one of the first countries to do so, the Gulf state’s media office said on Wednesday. Governments and developers around the ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a staged exit from COVID-19 lockdown that would see pubs and restaurants reopen in May, and hospitality and domestic holiday industries not fully ...

Police carried out more than 10,000 checks in the last 24 hours to curb the spread of Covid-19 and booked 73 individuals for violations of the measures. In total, 10,524 inspections were conducted, 3,337 in ...

The health ministry announced three deaths and 81 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. The deaths concerned an 89-year-old woman, a 74-year-old man and a 94-year-old man, all with underlying conditions. ...

Authorities in the north announced the death of a 68-year-old man from Covid-19 on Tuesday. The 68-year-old had been treated for Covid in intensive care since February 11. Media reports said ...