https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/empty-middle-seat-depends-on-which-country-you-are-flying-in
In Thailand, you cannot have food or water in flight and must wear a mask. In Malaysia and Indonesia, the plane needs to be half-empty. In the United States and Europe, it’s not mandatory for airlines to leave the middle seat open....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/north-and-south-touch-base-on-coronavirus
A bicommunal technical committee on health was set to convene on Wednesday to discuss the situation pertaining to the coronavirus outbreak across Cyprus, while it was not clear whether meeting would include discussion on re-opening checkpoints...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriots-told-to-mask-up-this-summer
The use of face masks is recommended but not required in the Republic of Cyprus, while Turkish Cypriots in the north are being told medical masks are mandatory during Ramadan...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/who-coronavirus-likely-of-bat-origin-no-sign-of-lab-production
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/china-ready-to-boost-covid-19-aid-to-cyprus
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday expressed China's readiness to continue and further strengthen its assistance towards Cyprus in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/twitter-unfreezes-chinese-ambassador-s-account
China's ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus was back online Wednesday night after Twitter unblocked his account following a two-day freeze...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/world-remains-cautious-over-chloroquine
The US Food and Drug Administration is a step closer to a potential approval of chloroquine for treatment against Covid-19, while more doubts over the drug’s effectiveness and concerns over lethal side effects continue to pop up around the globe...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/to-wear-or-not-to-wear
Recommendations on the use of face masks vary in the Republic of Cyprus, in the midst of a full-blown coronavirus pandemic, with members of the public essentially making that call based on the latest information they can find...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/we-will-defeat-our-shared-pandemic-enemy-and-rise-stronger-in-its-wake
The story of U.S. leadership in the global battle against Covid-19 is a story of days, months, and decades. Every day, new U.S. technical and material assistance arrives in hospitals and labs around the world. These efforts, in turn, build on a decades-long foundation of American expertise, generosity, and planning that is unmatched in history....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-in-the-mix-as-world-seeks-cure
An Israeli military aircraft has delivered five tons of chloroquine to Cyprus this week, amid reports of secret wars over limited access to the drug but also uncertainty over its effectiveness in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/infected-man-breaks-quarantine-in-search-of-meds
Health officials in Cyprus were perturbed over an incident when a self-quarantined man infected with the Covid-19 disease went out to local pharmacies in search of chloroquine, an existing drug that is still open to debate around the world...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/flight-ban-extended-for-two-weeks
A universal flight ban in the Republic of Cyprus was extended on Thursday for two more weeks, as health officials this week are closely monitoring the effectiveness of all measures taken on the island so far...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/china-s-ambassador-responds-to-us-criticism
The Chinese ambassador in Nicosia is firing back at US and media criticism over his country’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, adding that he believes Cyprus will win the battle against the coronavirus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cooperation-and-transparency-needed-to-fight-covid-19
In today’s age of social media, it has unfortunately become normal to see false information reach a broad audience instantaneously through the Interne...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/help-from-china-on-the-way
The Chinese ambassador in Nicosia says Cyprus has recently taken “powerful and appropriate” measures in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, adding that help from China is on the way...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mask-shipment-from-china-hits-obstacle
Medical supplies from China, which were expected to be flown to Cyprus on a Greek C-130, will not be shipped to the island with officials saying the Republic will have to send its own plane or find another way...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-confirms-three-new-coronavirus-cases-total-hikes-to-10
The Republic of Cyprus saw three additional confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday evening, raising the total to 10. A second COVID-19 case was also confirmed in the north earlier in the day...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coronavirus-measures-under-scrutiny
Health measures rolled out on the island were the topic of conversation on Wednesday morning, as more people who came in contact with a Nicosia-based infected doctor tested negative for the coronavirus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/six-coronavirus-cases-discovered-in-north-italy-hundreds-to-be-tested
Six people have tested positive in Italy for coronavirus, the northern Lombardy region said on Friday, in the first known cases of local transmission of the potentially deadly illness in the country....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-coronavirus-front-lines-under-scrutiny
Critics including medical professionals are raising questions over the handling of the coronavirus risk at ports of entry in the Republic of Cyprus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/health-minister-travels-to-brussels-for-extraordinary-eu-coronavirus-meeting
Amid growing concerns over coronavirus, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou will be rushing to Brussels on Wednesday after the European Union called for an emergency meeting of EU Health Ministers on Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-plan-to-strip-citizenship-stalls-in-legal-vacuum
A legal technicality has led Cyprus to temporarily halt a process to strip citizenship from 26 individuals who benefitted from a secretive passports-for-investment scheme, lawmakers said on Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/second-virus-case-tests-negative-in-cyprus
A woman from China, who traveled back to Cyprus on Monday and was suspected of being a carrier of the coronavirus, tested negative for the Wuhan bug hours later...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-suspected-of-coronavirus-at-nicosia-hospital
A Chinese woman, a permanent resident of Cyprus, is being treated at Nicosia General Hospital on suspicion of being a coronavirus carrier....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-clothes-makers-see-orders-shifting-from-coronavirus-hit-china
Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirus-hit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting production to Turkey, two sector officials told Reuters, with one predicting new orders worth up to $2 billion....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/china-scientists-identify-pangolin-as-possible-coronavirus-host
The deadly coronavirus outbreak in China could have spread from bats to humans through the illegal traffic of pangolins, the world’s only scaly mammals, which are prized in Asia for food and medicine, Chinese researchers said....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/novel-coronavirus-the-profile-of-victims
The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 490 in China on Wednesday, when two US airlines suspended flights to Hong Kong after the first coronavirus fatality was recorded, and a cruise ship was quarantined in Japan after 10 passengers tested positive for the virus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-ready-to-conduct-coronavirus-tests-locally
On Monday afternoon Cyprus will be ready to begin conducting specialised coronavirus tests, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-quarantined-in-nicosia-general-unlikely-to-be-coronavirus-carrier
A 22-year-old Chinese man quarantined in Nicosia General hospital after suspicions were raised of coronavirus is showing signs of recovery, with members of the Health Ministry’s epidemiological surveillance unit reporting that the possibilities of it being a case of coronavirus are low....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspected-coronavirus-carries-being-treated-at-nicosia-general
A Chinese man, a permanent resident of Cyprus who had visited China in recent days, was admitted into Nicosia General hospital on Friday after suspicions were raised that he carried the coronavirus....
