#coronavirus

Parents of nursery school children on Tuesday called for frequent self-tests as a more efficient way of monitoring the coronavirus situation than a proposal for a weekly rapid test. Self-tests, ...

A quarter of British employers have cited long COVID as a main cause of long-term sickness absences, a survey by a professional body found on Tuesday, adding that it raised ...

China will invite more spectators to attend the Winter Olympics as the COVID-19 situation is under control within the “closed-loop” bubble, which separates all event personnel from the public, an ...

Police handed out fines totaling €6,000 to six businesses for violating health protocols to contain the spread of coronavirus in the 24 hours to 6.00 am Tuesday, the Cyprus News Agency reported. The ...

A group of doctors, lawyers, educators and scientists gathered outside the attorney-general’s office on Monday to demand explanations regarding what they described as “scandalous” management of Covid-19. Professionals from ...

The health ministry on Monday announced four more coronavirus deaths, including two people in their 40s, as 3,374 new infections were recorded. The deaths concerned a man, aged 40 and a woman ...

More coronavirus cases are being detected among students after the implementation of the test to stay policy, risking school closure, secondary state teachers’ union Oelmek said on Monday. On the ...

South Africa’s health regulator said on Monday it had approved a COVID-19 vaccine from China’s Sinopharm, although a senior health official said the government was not planning to ...

Online appointments for a booster dose will be able to be arranged five months after the latest anti-coronavirus jab as of Sunday, the health ministry announced on Monday. Following a ...

Tuesday’s state rapid testing will be operating in the following areas: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Lemesos (6 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” ...

Primary school and kindergarten teachers held a one-hour work stoppage on Monday morning, with union Poed giving authorities 15 days to work out satisfactory solutions to problems faced due to ongoing ...

Eda Elal has prepared corpses for burial in accordance with Islamic rituals nearly half her life, but says her job as a “ghassal” in Turkey has never been harder than ...

Police fined 16 individuals and seven business for breaking coronavirus restrictions in the 24 hours up to 6am on Monday. A police spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency that these were the ...

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson a state of emergency to help deal with an unprecedented 10-day occupation by protesting truckers that has shut down much of the core of the Canadian ...

Free testing sites for Monday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Limassol (7 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 Pano ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,214 had tested positive from 85,567 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.59 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

And says we shouldn’t follow some fellow European countries yet in scrapping other Covid measures The SafePass is still effective in the age of Omicron, while the need for ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had conveyed his best wishes for a speedy recovery to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar by telephone. Tatar contracted the virus last week. ...

Police fined 13 individuals and 22 businesses were fined for violating Covid measures over the past 24 hours. They carried out a total of 2,484 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, there were 611 checks, booking 10 people ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 2,568 had tested positive from 87,025 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.9 per cent. The death concerned ...

As we come up to two years of Covid, we asked a selection of people on the streets of Nicosia about their experience, how much it’s changed them, and ...

The health ministry on Saturday said it hopes to vaccinate 75 per cent of the overall population against Covid-19, while calling on people to keep abiding by the personal protection measures. ...

A supermarket in Nicosia was fined €8,000 for allowing its staff to work without a SafePass. The fine came after 490 checks in the district, during which five individuals were also booked. ...

A total of 63 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Sunday, the health ministry announced. Eligible for a free rapid testing are people fully ...