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Amid a scramble for a much-coveted Covid-19 vaccine among the island’s elderly population, the health ministry on Tuesday announced changes to its vaccination portal to prioritise those over 90. The ...

The secondary school parents’ association has called on the health ministry and government Covid-19 advisory team to allow for final-year students to return to school. Their call on Monday stated ...

Disneyland Paris said on Monday it was postponing its reopening by almost two months, to April 2, due to the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Due to the prevailing conditions in ...

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 ...

Scientists have new biological evidence that the so-called South African coronavirus variant binds more readily and strongly to human cells, making it more infectious, top local epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim ...

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 ...

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 United States called on China on Monday to allow an expert team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to interview “care givers, former patients and lab workers” in the ...

Spain has begun administering second shots of the coronavirus vaccine to elderly nursing home residents, while a court in Seville ruled on Monday that a home could inoculate an incapacitated ...

Shops in Greece reopened for the first time in two months on Monday as the government took its first steps towards easing coronavirus restrictions, in a bid to breathe life ...

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The decision to go into lockdown in the north, announced on Saturday has been temporarily rescinded after the ‘government’ put its foot down citing the impact this would have on ...

Spending more time at home than ever before has seen out our beauty routines, in common with a lot else, change. ALIX NORMAN finds out how Corona has changed our ...

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, ...

The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” on distributing COVID-19 vaccines, urging countries and manufacturers ...

More people requested outings via SMS on Sunday than Friday and Saturday, the deputy ministry of research, innovation and digital policy announced on Monday. While a total of 449,129 people asked ...

There will not be any consequences for parents who choose not to take their children to kindergarten and pre-primary school amid the pandemic, the Pancyprian confederation of parents’ association for ...

Germany‘s health minister said on Monday that although measures to contain the coronavirus had started to have an effect, more needed to be done to bring it permanently under ...

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 ...

Britain’s vaccine rollout is limited by a “lumpy” manufacturing process with production changes by Pfizer and a delay by AstraZeneca that could lead to brief supply disruption, Vaccine Deployment ...

The health ministry said the 3,466 appointments for vaccinations which became available on Monday were booked in less than an hour. The appointments concern the first round of Pfizer-BioNTech for people ...

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 Nicosia district office will remain closed on Monday due to confirmed coronavirus cases, the interior ministry announced. The ministry informed the public that the offices will be disinfected in ...

Police booked 127 individuals and three businesses from Sunday until Monday to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In total, 10,653 checks were carried out, 3,177 in Nicosia, 2,788 in Limassol, 1,104 in Larnaca, 1,051 in ...