COVID19: Cyprus cases edge up to 857

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Cyprus health authorities on Friday announced seven new confirmed cases of COVID-19, the same as the previous day, suggesting the coronavirus curve is flattening out.

The daily rate remains under double figures as Cyprus has come a long way since infections peaked at 58 on 1 April.

There were 2,427 tests in total carried out on Friday, a national holiday.

the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit of the Health Ministry said one case was detected from 642 tests taken as part of the programme for testing 20,000 frontline workers.

Two other cases were detected from the 322 tests on people who were recently repatriated and four cases from 635 tests carried out at private laboratories.

No new cases were detected from 141 contact tracing, 174 tests performed by labs of the island’s general hospitals, 439 tests on the retail industry and nursing homes or among 74 tests performed on State Health Services Organisation employees.

The number of confirmed cases is now 857, including 10 located in the British Bases.

In the framework of the Ministry of Health’s programme to test 20,000 frontline workers, some 18,549 have been conducted.

On Friday, 13 people were being treated at  Famagusta General Hospital, designated as the Covid-19 reference hospital, one of them in the hospital’s ACU while one patient was discharged.

Four patients are intubated at Limassol General Hospital ICU and three more at Nicosia General Hospital’s ICU.

Two more patients are at the Nicosia ICU but are not on a ventilator. The condition of all ICU patients is critical but stable.

There are also five more confirmed cases receiving treatment in hospital other than Famagusta General.