Stakeholders in Cyprus tourism fear that this year’s season may well be over before it has begun as COVID-19 lockdown will continue for Easter while major tourist markets are facing a far worse fate. While the World Tourism Organisation is saying the coronavirus crisis could impact the growth of the global industry for the next
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RCB Bank has purchased 12 new ventilators that have arrived from China for the Cyprus health system to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. “With the needs of the National Health System and those of the people of Cyprus in mind, the ventilators were delivered to the representatives of the Republic of Cyprus in China and
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The Ministry of Education needs to raise its game by a notch because although the distance learning system is gradually starting to take shape, we still have a long way to go to ensure the current school year ends on time, or at least by the end of July. Technocrats are taking their time to
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There are side-effects for real estate in Cyprus due to the coronavirus, the closing of airports and the expected reduction of income by the locals. Here is some of our experience over the last 20 days. Real estate owners, a large percentage, refuse visits of potential buyers to their units, due to their concern that
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Cyprus health authorities on Saturday confirmed 30 new COVID-19 cases which bring the outbreak total to 426, including 10 in the British Bases, and nine deaths since the pandemic. In the Turkish occupied north of the island, there were no new cases recorded on Saturday, their total remains at 88 and two deaths. Divided Cyprus
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The University of Nicosia has launched a web-based platform that includes a self-diagnostic tool for people to determine if they are a suspected COVID-19 suspect, as well as healthy lifestyle tips and other online resources developed by university’s medical school. The main feature of the UNIC Coronavirus Health and Research Portal is the ‘Online COVID-19
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Three weeks in self-isolation takes its toll on trying to discover reasons to be optimistic, especially when I’m supposedly living in the middle of a COVID-19 cluster bomb in Aradippou. Despite the image of this cosmopolitan Larnaca village being a lawless Mexican border town populated by renegades and bandits, we are law-abiding citizens who want
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Fitch rating agency has changed the outlook for Cyprus from positive to stable, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its economy and Nicosia’s fiscal position. In a rating action issued on Friday, Fitch affirmed Cyprus’ Long term rating at ‘BBB-‘. “The outlook revision reflects the significant impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on
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Despite hopes that Cyprus will soon witness the peak of the coronavirus outbreak, following the high number of infections recorded this week, the country is nowhere near seeing a dramatic drop in cases. Epidemiologists and virologists feel that there is still a way to go before we reach the peak of the disease, mainly due
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One in four people who contracted COVID-19 in Cyprus is a health professional, according to official data for March. More than half of them being nurses, with their union PASYNO urging the state to test all health workers, while also reporting shortages in protective gear. An epidemiological survey released by the Epidemiological Monitoring Unit with
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