Cyprus Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said the government is prepared to address a possible new COVID-19 outbreak to ensure it has minimum impact on patients and the healthcare system. “We are proud of what we have achieved so far in containing the pandemic,” Ioannou told a Rotary Club of Nicosia-Lefkothea event. “We could certainly do
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Cyprus famous squeaky cheese is in for another bumpy ride in the UK as another battle over a trademark for halloumi is maturing in a London court. According to Bloomberg, the Foundation for the Protection of the Traditional Cheese of Cyprus is challenging a Hungarian dairy company, Babel Sajt Kft, that has asked to register
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Cyprus confirmed another two new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, after zero cases the day before, involving a Portuguese footballer and a local infection. The first case was a footballer from Portugal who arrived on Saturday via Athens with proof he was COVID-19 negative. He was later diagnosed positive to COVID-19 after his employer, Doxa FC,
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Cyprus has placed its order for some 1.2 million of the COVID-19 vaccine Oxford University is working on with pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, through the European Union, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. After epidemiologists advising the government on coronavirus urged health authorities to go ahead with ordering vaccines, the ministry said on Tuesday it has already
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Cyprus is pleased with a “historic” deal among EU leaders clinching an unprecedented €1.8 tln budget plus COVID-19 Recovery Fund to fix coronavirus-throttled economies. After a fractious summit lasting almost five days, the European Council reached a dawn deal on Tuesday that will see Cyprus benefitting €2.7 bln in pandemic emergency funds. In a written
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US giant Chevron’s $5 bln acquisition of Noble Energy is a move that could affect the development of Cyprus’ Aphrodite gas field, the Energy Ministry said in a statement. Chevron now has a major stake in the operating licence for Aphrodite in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus, along with joint venture partners Shell and
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Authorities in the Turkish occupied north of Cyprus have reported two more COVID-19 cases taking the total number to 123 and four deaths since March. The two coronavirus cases were confirmed on Monday night by Alli Pilli, head of the Turkish Cypriot health authorities. Pilli said that the two new cases – following three on
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A yellow alert was issued for extremely hot weather for Tuesday as Cyprus endures another scorching heatwave with maximum temperatures breaching the 40-degree Celsius barrier. The met office issued the alert, warning that temperatures will reach a blistering 41 degrees Celsius while noting that the days to follow will also be hotter than usual. Cyprus
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By Josep Borrell Five years ago this week in Vienna, the E3/EU+3 (China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, along with the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and Iran agreed to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). To mark the fifth anniversary of
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From 23 July, Cyprus will not allow entry to visitors from Romania and Luxembourg, taking them off the ‘safe’ travel list after health authorities revised their COVID-19 risk upward. These two countries have dropped off category B due to their worsening coronavirus data while six countries were added to this category including Algeria, Morocco, Rwanda,
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