https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-offers-troodos-vacation-residence-for-coronavirus-quarantine
State-owned properties in Troodos, including parts of the Presidential summer dwellings, will be provided to host suspected coronavirus carriers in quarantine....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/1-eu-scrambling-to-contain-covid-19-calls-for-coordinated-response
European Union countries should coordinate their responses to the outbreak of the coronavirus to avoid diverging approaches, the EU’s Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told reporters....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-confirms-first-coronavirus-case
Greece reported its first coronavirus case on Wednesday in the northern port city of Thessaloniki....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-ministers-touch-base-on-virus-threat
The health minister says the Republic of Cyprus is prepared in case the coronavirus outbreak reaches pandemic levels, saying discussions on additional measures continues...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-scrambles-to-assert-coronavirus-policy
More Cypriots are resisting government plans aimed at establishing a local quarantine facility for the coronavirus, while foreign officials warn the Wuhan outbreak may be reaching pandemic levels...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-in-the-north-tests-negative-for-coronavirus
Samples taken from a suspected coronavirus carrier in the north were sent to Turkey for examination, as per the request of the World Health Organization, Turkish Cypriot ‘Health Minister’ Ali Pilli said on Monday. The results came back negative, Turkish Cypriot media reported....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/fourth-italian-dies-from-coronavirus-in-worst-flare-up-outside-asia
A fourth person infected with the coronavirus has died in Italy, officials said on Monday as the government struggled to contain an outbreak of the illness and financial markets slid on fears over the economic impact....
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/residents-up-in-arms-over-virus-camp
Local residents in rural Nicosia are reacting to government plans aimed at establishing a quarantine facility in their area to treat potential confirmed coronavirus cases in Cyprus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/minister-says-‘no-panic-over-coronavirus
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou says the Cypriot government is taking all precautions against the coronavirus threat, adding that the administration is on alert but there is no panic...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/officials-deny-weak-spots-in-virus-front-lines
State health officials have denounced questions in the media over the handling of the coronavirus risk at airports, saying the image of the Republic of Cyprus was at stake...
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/who-coronavirus-officially-named-covid-19
The World Health Organization says the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus will be Covid-2019....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coronavirus-emergency-holds-a-very-grave-threat-for-world-says-who
China’s coronavirus outbreak poses a “very grave threat for the rest of the world,” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday in an appeal for sharing virus samples and speeding up research into drugs and vaccines, Reuters reported.
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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/makarios-hospital-on-alert-over-rsv-cases
Health officials are warning parents of young infants to be extra cautious with their babies, following a recent rise in cases of the respiratory syncytial virus...
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/cypriot-leaders-vow-to-fight-virus-together
The two Cypriot leaders of divided Cyprus co-chaired a health meeting on Monday and agreed to increase cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus...
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/cypriot-resident-tests-negative-for-wuhan-bug
A young man from China, who was quarantined in Nicosia General Hospital in a suspected case of coronavirus, is going home on Sunday after testing negative for the Wuhan bug...
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....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/facebook-to-remove-coronavirus-misinformation
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it will take down misinformation about China’s fast-spreading coronavirus in a rare departure from its approach to health content, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-leaders-to-meet-to-discuss-coronavirus-cooperation
President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will meet next Monday to discuss possible ways of cooperation in view of protecting the Cyprus population, both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, from the coronavirus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/who-declares-a-global-health-emergency
The World Health Organization has declared coronavirus a global health emergency, saying the fast-spreading virus has infected more than 8200 people across the world...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/wuhan-coronavirus-close-to-strand-in-bats
A coronavirus known to live in bats is the closest strain of the 2019-nCoV virus that first appeared in China's Wuhan region and has since spread to other parts of Asia, with cases reported in Europe, Australia and North America, a study by Greek scientists at Athens University and the University of Crete has revealed....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/half-of-cypriots-proclaim-themselves-cybercrime-proof
Just over half of Cypriots stated they are well informed to protect themselves from cybercrime, a Eurobarometer released by European Commission on Wednesday showed....
