#vaccine

The Cyprus Paediatric society on Friday recommended to immediately include 12 to 15-year-olds in the coronavirus vaccine programme, saying that 20 per cent of coronavirus cases in Cyprus concern children. The recommendation ...

A total of 202,781 adult persons remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, the ministry of health said in a press release. According to data released by the ministry, 71.7% of the adult population has ...

A total of 100 citizens got a vaccine at the new Paphos walk-in vaccine clinic, it was announced on Sunday. Housed at the former district officer’s home, walk-in vaccinations are ...

The health ministry said on Tuesday it will facilitate members of the public who have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine abroad to get the second one here ...

A sharp upturn in new coronavirus infections due to the highly contagious Delta variant and a slowdown in vaccination rates have pushed governments to make COVID–19 jabs mandatory for health ...

The ‘walk-in’ vaccinations centres where people will not need to book an appointment will start operating on Thursday the health ministry announced on Tuesday. According to health ministry spokesperson Margarita ...

Thirteen per cent of people aged 16 and 17 had received their first coronavirus jab by July 8, health ministry spokesperson Margarita Kyriakou said on Monday. This follows the opening of the vaccination ...

The health ministry on Friday presented updated instructions for the rescheduling of vaccination appointments, reminding the public that the vaccination portal will from now on be open to everyone aged 16 ...

The Cyprus Hotels Association (Pasyxe) on Friday called on its members to urge staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19, adding that more than 50 per cent of hotel employees remain unvaccinated. ...

Developing new drugs takes time and money, which is why repurposing existing ones to fight coronavirus makes so much sense. THEO PANAYIDES speaks to a local scientist involved in a ...

Reiterating that the coronavirus pandemic can only be effectively addressed through vaccinations, the health ministry on Monday announced the vaccination portal will be open for everyone over 18 from Friday onwards. ...

Spain’s players were vaccinated against COVID-19 on Friday at their training centre, bringing an end to a long saga but provoking fears of potential side effects before kicking off ...

The Church of Greece has called on their Cypriot counterparts to ask the outspoken Morphou Bishop to tone down his anti-vaccine rhetoric and criticism which it was deemed, interferes with ...

More than 5,000 people aged 23 to 27 booked an appointment for a Covid vaccine on Tuesday, the health ministry said. In total 5,450 appointments were booked of the 10,250 available. On Wednesday, the vaccination ...

Conflicting text messages regarding Monday’s vaccination appointments in Limassol led to confusion with some 70 to 80 members of the public, many of them foreign nationals, turning up at the Spyros ...

The vaccination portal will reopen on Friday for 36–39-year-olds, the health ministry said on Thursday, announcing that almost 51 per cent of the population has received a jab. Members of the ...

Decisions about the AstraZeneca vaccine will be made by Wednesday evening after epidemiologists submitted their suggestions, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said. No new AstraZeneca appointments will be allowed “until the ...

The European Union expects to have received more than a billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of September from four drugmakers, a document presented to EU leaders on ...

A British national who was hospitalised in Nicosia general hospital for a thrombotic episode after receiving the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has died, a health official said on Monday. Health authorities ...

Citizens who are eligible for vaccinations and have already received the first dose of the Covid vaccine have reached almost 50% of the population, the health ministry said on Sunday. According ...

Cyprus’ authorities announced on Sunday that they are investigating a new case of blood clot in a 40-year-old female, who is being treated at the Nicosia general hospital two weeks ...

People aged 18 to 21 booked 8,855 vaccination appointments in the first two hours of the portal opening for their age group on Monday, the health ministry said. A total of 15,920 slots were ...

In the first hour and a half after it opened on Sunday morning the vaccination portal saw a total of 8,270 appointments booked by people aged 31 and 32. These were from a ...

Britain’s medicine regulator on Thursday said there was some evidence that uncommon blood clots linked to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine occurred more in women than in men, adding that ...