COVID19: Cyprus cases levelling out

Cyprus health authorities announced on Saturday seven new confirmed COVID-19 cases, from 1,731 tests, taking the total number since the outbreak to 864.

In a statement, the Ministry of Health said there were no confirmed cases detected from 415 tests on frontline workers or tests from 319 samples at private labs or 230 tests conducted on 2,000 employees in the retail food & beverage industry or in care homes for the elderly.

But two people tested positive, out of 236 tests, as part of the tracking process of contacts who have already tested positive.

Four people tested positive out of 195 tests conducted in the Microbiology Labs of the General Hospitals.

One person tested positive out of 336 tests conducted on people returning from abroad.

On the basis of Saturday’s cases, the same number as Friday, the total of positive infections is now 864, including 10 located in the British Bases.

Some 13 patients are at the COVID-19 referral hospital Famagusta General, two of them are in the Acute Care Unit.

A total of five patients, one in the ICU of Limassol General Hospital and four at Nicosia General Hospital ICU, are breathing with the help of a ventilator.

One patient who is hospitalised in Nicosia General ICU is not intubated.

The clinical state of all patients in the ICUs is “critical but stable”.

Apart from patients treated at the reference hospital, another five people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are treated at other hospitals,.