#vaccination

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 ...

To date, 19,221 people have received both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine and 37,570 were given the first dose, with most being elderly, the health ministry said on Saturday. Close to 43,000 vaccinations ...

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 ...

By Stephanie Nebehay, Kate Kelland and John Miller AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective and should be deployed widely, including in countries where the South African variant of ...

The debate over the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the over 65s took an unexpected turn on Wednesday when the Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) appeared to do a U-turn, ...

The first Russian vaccine against Covid-19, Sputnik V has been approved so far in 23 countries and it is expected that the EU will examine its application this month, Russian ambassador ...

Cyprus will have 7,200 AstraZeneca doses ready to administer from Tuesday and they will not be subject to age restrictions, the health ministry said. The AstraZeneca doses arrived on Monday. So ...

Tourism-dependent Greece and Cyprus discussed requesting vaccination certificates from travellers arriving in the two countries, Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis said on Monday, following a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades ...

Appointments for coronavirus vaccinations will be available for people aged 79 and over as from Tuesday, February 9, the health ministry said on Monday as it unveiled phase three of its national ...

People at risk of serious illness if infected with the coronavirus should not be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine because of its lower efficacy, according to a pharmacology expert. Assistant ...

School teachers on Thursday demanded to be included in the free vaccination programme of the government in light of the reopening of schools on January 8. “We believe that since we ...

A health ministry change to its vaccination procedures for the elderly appears to have been more effective than anticipated, with some 4,000 appointment slots for coronavirus vaccines still available for people ...

The health ministry announced on Saturday that coronavirus vaccination appointments for those over 90 will be available from Monday morning. Some 5,448 jab appointments for this age group can be made via ...

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 ...

Vaccinations continued with 4,191 people receiving the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech jab this week, bringing the total amount of those vaccinated to 10,226, the health ministry announced on Saturday. Another 200 vaccinations on ...

Around one hundred Covid-19 vaccines are being administered daily to the over 80s group at Larnaca’s old general hospital, an official said Tuesday. Kyriaki Michail, visitors officer to the ...

Nurses at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital on Thursday condemned the health ministry for not including them in the first round of vaccinations. In a written statement the staff of the ...

Cardiologists said on Thursday that they should be put in a higher priority group for receiving the coronavirus vaccine because of the risk they run of contracting the virus from ...

Vaccinations in the north will start on January 15, with Sinovac, the Chinese vaccine to be delivered to the Turkish Cypriot community by Turkey, it was reported on Monday. In the ...

The second phase of Covid-19 vaccinations is expected to kick off on January 8, with a public portal where people will arrange an appointment for a jab going live on Tuesday, ...