Cyprus airports will go into virtual lockdown for 14 days with a blanket ban on passenger flights from March 21, the government clarified on Wednesday following a decree that suggested only 28 countries were affected, including Britain and Greece, to curb the coronavirus outbreak. “The 21/3 flight ban to our airports will apply to all
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Βυ Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM Asian stocks can’t seem to catch a break as the region’s main indices are falling on Wednesday, despite all three major US stock indices posting solid gains on Tuesday. Although US equities were buoyed by the prospects of President Trump’s $1.2 trillion stimulus package for the world’s largest
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RCB Bank said it has taken all the necessary measures to ensure the well-being and protection of its human capital while securing the uninterrupted provision of its products and services to its customers. In an effort to meet its clients’ needs for cash, the Bank has cancelled ATM cash withdrawal commissions until further notice. As
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Cyprus recorded three new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday taking the total in the Republic to 49 during the second week of the outbreak, the Health Ministry announced. According to the latest information from the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, two of the new cases came into contact with a person that was confirmed
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Cypriots who arrived in Cyprus after Monday’s travel restriction and quarantined in the Troodos mountains have slammed conditions at the facilities as ‘unacceptable’ and “inhumane”. Some 75 passengers arriving after a travel ban on incoming flights to Cyprus imposed from Monday where entry requires a health certificate and automatic 14-day quarantine at state facilities in
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Visits to patients in private and state hospitals islandwide are banned from 18 March according to a Health Ministry decree issued on Tuesday after 10 nurses and doctors contracted Covid-19 at Paphos General Hospital. The restriction on visitations is an additional measure to stem the spread of coronavirus after a patient was infected at Paphos
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A Cyprus coronavirus case will be transferred from the Famagusta reference hospital to the ICU of Limassol General Hospital after his condition deteriorated. CNA said the 47-year-old man, treated at the reference hospital, although his condition was good, he quickly developed respiratory distress syndrome. He will be transferred to Limassol General Hospital after a recommendation
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Guests are being slowly cleared from hotels following a Cyprus government coronavirus decree ordering that all hotels suspend their services from 21 March for six weeks. Hotel associations PASYXE and STEK told CNA gradual closures are continuing smoothly. PASYXE General Manager Zacharias Ioannides said the process of evacuating the hotels is continuing based on the
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Turkish Cypriot authorities on Tuesday reported one more case of COVID-19 in the north of Cyprus bringing the total number of infected people to seven. The new case concerns another German national who had been in quarantine at a hotel in Famagusta after a member of a tour group from Germany had tested positive for
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By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM It was a complete bloodbath across stock markets on Monday, despite more stimulus measures from the Federal Reserve over the weekend, including another emergency interest rate cut. Markets are becoming increasingly concerned that central banks are running out of precious ammunition to counter the coronavirus pandemic, with
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