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3991. Cypriot president gets vaccine

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades received on Monday his first of two doses of the COVID19 vaccine at a suburb of Nicosia, calling on vaccine doubters and deniers to come on board...

3992. Cyprus upbeat after first shots

Cypriot patients received their first vaccine shot against COVID-19 on Sunday without immediate side effects, at a time when the coronavirus referral hospital was nearing capacity and experts saying protection for those vaccinated will kick in seven days after their second dose...

3993. Britain and EU publish Brexit trade agreement

Britain and the European Union on Saturday published the text of a narrow trade agreement just five days before the United Kingdom exits one of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most momentous global shift since the loss of empire ...

3994. First batch arrives in Cyprus

The first batch of vaccines reached Cyprus on Saturday, a day after Christmas, with a senior home and a referral hospital getting the first vaccinations on the island as early as Sunday...

3995. Health ministry announces three deaths, 477 new cases

The health ministry announced three coronavirus deaths and 477 new cases on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 104 and total cases detected to 18,883....

3996. Return to normality by summer, expert says

Restriction measures will be maintained even after vaccinations begin, as it won’t be until the summer until a safe percentage of the population is vaccinated, member of the government’s health advisory committee Dr Constantinos Tsioutis told the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday....

3997. Two arrested after Syrian refugees reach shore

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling after over a dozen presumptive refugees from Syria reached Cypriot shores late Tuesday night, while there was still concern over overcrowding concerns at a migrant camp outside the capital...

3998. Health ministry announces five deaths, 402 cases

The health ministry announced five coronavirus deaths and 402 new cases on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 101 and total cases detected to 18,406....

3999. Cyprus’ passport probe dispute widens

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and DIKO party leader Nicholas Papadopoulos took their disagreement over probing golden passports to a whole new level this week, while questions remained over the independent committee’s reassurances of transparency in the investigation...

4000. Parents cry foul over quarantine decision

Parents of Cypriot students in the UK protested against the government’s latest quarantine measures, saying their children were not given a heads up to decide whether to travel and isolate in a hotel or stay put over the holidays...

4001. Health ministry announces one death, 286 new cases

The health ministry announced one coronavirus fatality and 286 new cases on Monday, raising the death toll to 96 and total cases to 18,004....

4002. EU regulator gives conditional approval to Covid-19 vaccine

The European Medicines Agency says an expert committee has recommended conditional approval for a coronavirus vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer to be used across the European Union, weeks after the shot was first granted permission under emergency provisions in Britain and the United States....

4003. The Greek scientist developing 6G

At the moment Greece is unveiling the 5G communications network, on the opposite end of Europe, a Greek professor, a communications engineer, is getting a grant from the European Research Council to develop 6G....

4004. Cabinet to decide on holiday leniency

With Christmas day and the New Year approaching, businesses and the public are growing increasingly eager to see whether restriction measures in place will be loosened, but recent figures and the climbing death toll point to any relaxation being a highly unlikely scenario...

4005. Cyprus on alert over COVID-19 variant

Airport officials in the Republic of Cyprus are telling passengers arriving from the United Kingdom to self-isolate, following a new emergency guideline on Monday after other countries on the weekend banned UK flights altogether amid fears of a new strain of coronavirus...

4006. Biker dies in violent rural road crash

A biker was killed in a violent accident on Saturday after his motorcycle broke into two pieces following a collision with a pickup truck in rural Limassol...

4007. Health ministry announces two deaths, 410 cases

The health ministry announced two coronavirus fatalities and 410 new cases on Friday, raising the death toll to 87 and total cases to 17,057....

4008. Cyprus President to be among first to get Covid jab

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will be among the first citizens to receive the vaccine against Covid-19, Government Spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said Friday....

4009. Nicosia takes lead in number of new coronavirus cases

Over half of the new coronavirus cases detected during the first two weeks of December were Nicosia-based, the new national surveillance report published Friday showed, while December has already broken the record in the highest numbers of coronavirus fatalities in any given month....

4010. Blame game in full swing after budget vote

The government in the Republic of Cyprus faced an unprecedented challenge on Thursday, after failing to pass a 2021 budget in the House, with lawmakers approving stopgap measures to keep making payments for the next couple of months...

4011. Heath ministry announces 457 new cases

4012. New Chinese Ambassador hails deepening relations with Cyprus

China opposes any unilateral provocations and actions that undermine the peace and stability of Cyprus and the region and as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, it will continue to play a constructive and coordinating role in facilitating the settlement of the Cyprus problem, UNFICYP’s mandate renewal, and the implementation of relevant UN resolutions, to uphold fairness and justice for Cypriots, China's new Ambassador to Cyprus, Liu Yantao said, presenting on Thursday his credentials to Cyrpus President, Nicos Anastasiades....

4013. Cyprus to begin vaccinations on December 27

Vaccinations in Cyprus will begin in unison with other EU member states on December 27 following approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA)....

4014. Health ministry announces one death, 401 new cases

The health ministry announced one coronavirus fatality and 401 new cases on Wednesday, raising the death toll to 85 and total cases to 16,190....

4015. 15 days of hell in Varosha in the summer of '74

Varosha. August 19, 1974. Appartments, Block 10, apartment 2. There lived Michalakis Hadjipavlou, 30 years old, with his wife, Xenia Hadipavlou, aged 25, and two of their three children. Their firstborn, four-year-old Thomas, and two-year-old Marios, while their three-year-old daughter Maria was at a friend’s house in Larnaca....

4016. Signs of stabilization as Cyprus preps for inoculations

The coronavirus situation is showing signs of stabilization and a drop in the number of daily cases is expected, member of the government’s health advisory committee Dr Petros Karayiannis said Wednesday....

4017. Police warn public about phony ATM messages

Police in Cyprus are warning the public to be on the lookout for suspicious text messages, saying scammers pretending to be bank employees are trying to trick people by telling them their debit cards have been blocked and need to be reauthorized...

4018. Cyprus mourns two more deaths, detects 339 new cases

The health ministry announced two more coronavirus fatalities and 339 new cases on Tuesday, raising total deaths attributed to the virus to 84 and total cases recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic in March to 15, 789....

4019. Cyprus lays out eagerly awaited vaccination plan

The Republic of Cyprus’ eagerly awaited plan for the mass vaccination of its residents against the novel coronavirus was presented on Tuesday by the health minister and Dr Olga Kalakouta....

4020. Cyprus records four Covid-19 deaths, 349 cases

The health ministry announced four coronavirus deaths and 349 cases on Monday, raising the Republic’s coronavirus death toll to 82 and total cases to 15,450....