https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/chuchgoers-of-illegal-service-fiasco-to-face-court
By Friday morning, police had managed to track down 14 of the churchgoers who had taken part in an illegal service at Ayios Georgios Spileon Monastery in Limassol’s Erimi village on Thursday, which soon turned into a fiasco as participants had locked themselves in rooms upon the sight of the police while some managed to escape....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-hold-church-stakeout-after-illicit-service-participants-refuse-to-come-out
Police have been staking out a church in the Limassol District’s Erimi village since 9am on Thursday after finding out that a church service attended by the public was taking place, but attendants are refusing to leave the church in fear of being booked....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/youth-who-lost-fingers-speaks-out
A teenager, who blew off three of his fingers after a firework tube exploded in his hand, took to social media to warn his peers against the use of illegal pyrotechnics...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-break-up-soccer-match-downtown
Four males from Cameroon were arrested on Tuesday in old Nicosia after police attempted to break up a soccer match, while two detainees were also accused of assaulting an officer and resisting arrest...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coronavirus-derails-southern-europe-s-clean-up-from-the-last-crisis
This year was meant to mark a turning point for Greek and Italian banks as they finally laid the ghosts of the financial crisis to rest. Then the coronavirus struck....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/unhcr-steps-in-to-ensure-refugees-in-cyprus-receive-proper-protection
The UNHCR office in Cyprus has stressed that refugees must be included in the government’s planning and response to the Covid-19 pandemic, offering hands-on solutions to the myriad problems in the government’s handling of refugee and asylum procedures that have only been exacerbated by the current crisis....
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/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/coronavirus-deaths-rise-to-five-16-new-cases-confirmed
The Health Ministry announced on Friday that two more people who had contracted coronavirus died, involving a 76-year-old Cypriot woman with underlying health conditions and a 47-year-old Greek national. 16 more coronavirus cases were also confirmed....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/people-stranded-in-cyprus-continue-to-be-evacuated-on-rescue-flights
Two rescue flights will be departing from Larnaca and Paphos International airports on Friday, evacuating people who were stranded in Cyprus after the ban imposed on flights due to the coronavirus pandemic....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/quarantined-students-in-north-put-foot-down
Turkish Cypriot students who flew to the north on a charter flight were up in arms over quarantine accommodations, while both sides of the island were having a hard time convincing people to comply with quarantine rules...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-to-serve-five-years-for-child-rape
A man in his late 40’s was sentenced to prison after being convicted for raping a young girl repeatedly during her elementary school years...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/1-national-guard-to-oversee-returnees-quarantined-in-hotels
As of Saturday, the National Guard will be bolstering efforts for the surveillance of quarantine facilities where some 1,300 repatriated Cypriots will be isolated for two weeks....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/second-paphos-private-hospital-to-limit-operations-after-covid-19-confirmation
The Evangelismos private hospital in Paphos became the second private hospital in the city on the southwest coast to limit its operations after a doctor working there tested positive for coronavirus on Friday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/elderly-man-killed-while-crossing-the-street
An elderly man was killed in a road accident in Limassol on Friday, after he was struck by an oncoming vehicle as he was trying to cross the road...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-shot-by-police-dies-in-hospital
A foreign national, who was hospitalized after getting shot by Limassol police during an attempt to arrest him, has succumbed to his injuries...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/healthy-baby-born-in-athens-from-woman-infected-with-covid-19
The first baby from a woman who tested positive to the novel coronavirus was born in a hospital in Athens on Wednesday, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/repatriations-cutting-it-close-to-universal-ban
Hundreds of citizens have asked to be repatriated to the Republic of Cyprus, prompting the government to seek options to beat a universal ban on all flights that goes into effect on Saturday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/government-urges-hotels-to-host-repatriated-cypriots-for-isolation
Deputy Minister of Tourism, Savvas Perdios, urged hoteliers to respond to a call to host people expected to be repatriated to Cyprus in the coming days, and who are required to confine themselves for 14 days....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/travelers-speak-of-horror-under-quarantine
Dozens of travelers who arrived in Cyprus without a required health certificate for the coronavirus say they were hurried to the mountains in the dead of night and treated like “criminals” and “lepers"...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-businessman-shot-on-rural-road
A Nicosia businessman was rushed to the Emergency Room after he was shot on a rural road outside the capital...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/infected-cabbie-s-grandson-hospitalized
A young child has been hospitalized in Nicosia after coming in contact with his grandfather, a taxicab driver in Paphos who tested positive for the coronavirus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-reports-first-coronavirus-death
Greece reported its first fatality from a coronavirus infection on Thursday, after an elderly man traveled on a Christian pilgrimage with dozens of others in his group...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/four-more-people-test-positive-for-corornavirus-in-cyprus
Four new cases of coronavirus were confirmed on Wednesday, raising the figure to seven across the divide....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-schools-temporarily-suspended-as-coronavirus-measures-stepped-up
Schools across the Nicosia district were temporarily suspended on Tuesday, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou announced.
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/young-baby-tests-positive-in-nicosia
A young infant tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday evening in Nicosia, while COVID-19 lab test results were still pending for another baby...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-student-rushed-to-hospital
A high school student in Paphos was rushed to the Emergency Room after he fell through a trap door on school premises...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/intoxicated-man-bursts-into-paphos-home
Two friends had the scare of their lives on Thursday night after an intoxicated man burst into a residence in Paphos, grabbed a knife, and injured one of them...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/covid-19-cases-in-greece-jump-to-31
The total number of the new coronavirus cases in Greece has risen to 31, after 21 more people who came in contact with the country’s ninth confirmed case tested positive, Greek Health Ministry spokesman Dimitris Tsiodras said in press briefing on Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-couples-arrested-after-brutal-assault
Two men and their spouses have been detained following a vicious attack against an Egyptian male who was found in very bad shape in Paphos...