Cyprus confirmed just one new COVID-19 case on Sunday, a student who tested positive from 819 samples taken from schools and teaching staff. The Health Ministry said the new case was found among a total of 1,717 tests carried out on Sunday which brings the total since the outbreak in March to 944. Cyprus has
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I’m guessing by now that for you lockdown is a distant memory, you’re not washing hands as often as before and those conspiracy theories are sounding more believable. Although still feeling uncomfortable about venturing outside, I have taken a look around Larnaca and didn’t find too much evidence of social distancing in outdoor bars and
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Decades ago, an editorial columnist in the Cyprus Weekly used to write incessantly, “Let’s not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs”, referring primarily to tourism and, in a fortune-telling way, a lack of respect for the environment. Many summers have passed and despite warnings from holiday specialists, the ‘visual pollution’ is still there,
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Cyprus confirmed only one new case of coronavirus on Saturday, keeping infections at the same level as the day before as more lockdown measures will be lifted on June 1. After reaching zero cases twice within a week, Cyprus can’t maintain the streak, although the one case on Saturday is evidence COVID-19 is being contained despite
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EuroAsia Interconnector, the Cyprus-Greece subsea electricity cable, got the go-ahead this week when energy ministers of both countries co-signed the project’s application for grants from the ‘Connecting Europe Facility’ (CEF), the EU’s energy infrastructure fund. The interconnector, with an initial capacity to carry 1,000MW, has been included in four successive Union lists for projects of
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We were nearing full recovery in the property market with positive trends, only to face the coronavirus situation that, in addition to the loss of human lives, has had an impact on business, especially the tourist industry and by extension the real estate sector. As if this was not enough, some other problems have cropped
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Omonia Nicosia’s New York-based Cypriot investor Stavros Papastavrou feels vindicated after sticking with his investment in the Greens following a disappointing first season to the Champions League. Following a disappointing 2018-19 season which saw the football club finish sixth, this year Omonia is set to return to the lucrative Champions League after 10 years. Papastavrou’s
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Cyprus confirmed only one new case of coronavirus on Friday, keeping infections as close to zero as possible with more lockdown measures being eased next week. After reaching zero cases twice within a week, Cyprus can’t maintain the streak, although the one case On Friday is less than the two COVID-19 infections the previous day.
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades discussed regional cooperation on Friday with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, describing Egypt as “one of our closest friends and a strategic partner”. Cyprus-Egypt relations have blossomed in recent years mainly founded on an alliance to make the East Med a stable energy hub also requiring military and political cooperation.
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By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM All eyes will be on President Trump, who is set to announce new US policies towards China some time on Friday. And nervousness in markets is already showing. Asian equities are mostly lower, taking some of the gloss off the MSCI Asia Pacific Index’s otherwise remarkable 24% advance
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