https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/exxonmobil-puts-cyprus-plans-on-hold
ExxonMobil's crucial drilling plans to confirm a large gas deposit south of Cyprus have been put on hold, with a local media report citing delays due to the coronavirus pandemic...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/no-sms-needed-in-dire-necessity-situations
Interior Minister Nikos Nouris clarified this week that the limit of one text message per day for exception-based movements during the pandemic does not apply to situations where going out is absolutely necessary...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/5g-bashers-in-cyprus-set-antenna-on-fire
Conspiracy theories took a front seat on social media over the weekend, with the burning of a cell phone antenna in Limassol taking place after a full-blown debate on whether 5G was linked to the coronavirus pandemic...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/morphou-bishop-defies-church-lockdown
Morphou Bishop Neophytos spoke out against decree orders on Palm Sunday, after accusing police officers of being “rude” and praised the Bulgarian government for keeping churches open...
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/news/bill-sparks-kosher-debate-in-cyprus
Animal rights advocates are up in arms over a new government bill that would allow slaughterhouses in the Republic of Cyprus to incorporate kosher rituals, a procedure described by animal rights activists as inhumane...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-stays-put-beyond-easter
Church and state got behind scientists this week in the Republic of Cyprus, with the government extending measures beyond Easter to stop the spread of Covid-19 despite partial data suggesting a flattening of the curve...
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/archbishop-tells-believers-to-shelter-in-place
Archbishop Chrysostomos has called on believers to stay home during Orthodox Easter, saying “if we truly love God, then our mission should be to put an end to this pandemic...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/over-23-000-applications-filed-for-suspension-of-loan-payments
More than 23,000 persons have applied to the island’s two largest banks for a suspension of loan repayments, as retail borrowers and companies are trying to preserve disposable income amid the economic activity shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-mulls-pushing-back-easter-celebrations
The President of the Republic of Cyprus is expected to call on the Archbishop to push back on Easter celebrations, as media sources say the government is likely to heed the advice of experts to extend coronavirus measures until the end of April...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/make-or-break-week-for-cyprus
A critical yet less understood group of asymptomatic carriers of the coronavirus could make or break the case against lifting restrictive measures during Greek Orthodox Easter in the Republic of Cyprus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-coronavirus-deaths-continue-upward-climb
Greece's Health Ministry has announced that there have been 5 new fatalities from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours to 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) local, raising the total to 73, 52 of them men...
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/tenth-person-succumbs-to-covid-19-infection-total-cases-rise-to-356
The coronavirus death toll rose to 10 in the Republic on Thursday after a woman who was being treated in the Limassol General Hospital ICU succumbed to the infection, while 36 new cases were confirmed....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/fight-against-pandemic-hangs-in-the-balance
Authorities in the Republic of Cyprus are closely monitoring the effectiveness of stricter measures against the spread of the coronavirus, with health experts saying more cases resulting from lack of social distancing are now starting to emerge...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/coronavirus-impact-on-local-businesses
The organisation’s experts discuss the developments and analyse the measures that need to be taken to address the challenges...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/corporate-social-responsibility-and-corporates-response-to-covid19
The long-term debate over CSR is concerned with whose interests should be attended to, shareholders or stakeholders, and this is actually the debate of the two competing theories over the purpose of the modern business firm...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-okays-drugs-with-one-big-caveat
The Cypriot health minister says a special committee is moving forward with procedures to make drugs available against the COVID-19 disease, while warning that no medicines have been approved for treatment of the novel coronavirus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ward-to-treat-suspected-covid-19-cases-opens-in-paphos-general-hospital
A ward to deal exclusively with suspected coronavirus cases was placed in operation on Monday at the Paphos General Hospital....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/minister-lashes-out-at-decree-violators
Cypriot Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou called on members of the public to “drastically limit their contacts in order for the effort against coronavirus to work” as police fined a record number of violations on Sunday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coronavirus-death-toll-rises-in-cyprus
One more coronavirus-related death was announced on Sunday in the Republic of Cyprus, as new confirmed cases are on the rise and health professionals begin to fear the worst...
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/north-tries-to-keep-tight-grip-on-virus
Reports in the north painted a bleak picture in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus, with an infected bus driver saying he was denied a test for the bug after transporting tourists to their quarantine location...
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-evaluating-effectiveness-of-choroquine-drug-against-coronavirus
A consultative committee of experts at the Cyprus Ministry of Health is evaluating the effectiveness against coronavirus of the drug chloroquine, used to treat coronavirus in China and widely available in Cyprus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/british-bases-hand-in-hand-with-republic-of-cyprus-in-covid-19-battle
The British Bases in Cyprus go hand in hand with the Republic of Cyprus in the fight against the spread of COVID-19, SBA Administrator, Major General Rob Thomson, said on Thursday, noting that the Bases have been implementing the exact same measures as the ones adopted by the Republic of Cyprus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sms-service-8998-back-online
The SMS service 8998 was once again up and running on Thursday morning, with replies sent back almost instantaneously in both Greek and English...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/persons-who-will-travel-for-permitted-reasons-to-fill-in-a-form-or-send-sms
During the partial curfew to be enforced at 6pm on Tuesday for three weeks, those wishing to leave their home or shelter for any of the reasons falling under the exceptions to the travel restriction must either fill in a special form or send a text message to 8998....
