The plight of eleven-month-old SMA baby Asya Polatli has taken the media spotlight in the north, leaving the meeting between Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and President Nicos Anastasiades in New York in its shadows. The little girl was admitted at Makarios children’s hospital on Monday to undergo a rare gene treatment for spinal muscular
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Germany is heading towards a three-party government with a significant climate action focus, as the centre-left Social Democrats made an unexpected comeback and scored a thin victory in Sunday’s federal elections. The long-ruling conservatives fell below 25% and slumped to their worst result ever, with the country not knowing chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor for weeks,
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The Health Ministry said that the COVID-19 booster shot programme for vulnerable groups and the elderly in Cyprus is continuing at a satisfactory pace. After administering a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to those aged over 86, people belonging to vulnerable groups and health workers, authorities on Monday moved the aged limit down to
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An upward trend in tourist arrivals, especially from non-traditional markets, has left stakeholders confident that the Cyprus holiday industry will be back on track in the next couple of years, reaching the pre-coronavirus 2019 record breaking levels. Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios told media outlet StockWatch that he felt confident a trend building up
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Cyprus reported no coronavirus deaths for the seventh time this month on Monday, with the number of new cases and hospitalisations edging higher. The health ministry said in its daily Covid bulletin that the death toll remained unchanged at 552, keeping the September total at 40. New cases rose significantly to 136 from 78 the day
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An eleven-month old Turkish Cypriot baby, Asya Polatli, was admitted at Makarios children’s hospital on Monday to undergo a rare gene treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The little girl and her parents had earlier been flown in from Turkey by air ambulance, where she had been hospitalised for rapid loss of muscle mass. Asya’s
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Larnaca’s newest retail jewel, the Metropolis Mall, opened its doors on September 16, with tens of thousands of consumers flocking in to get a taste of what the new talk of the town had to offer. The mall’s first week was a success with stores welcoming more than 16,000 visitors a day on weekdays, Metropolis
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Economic sentiment dropped by 1.5 points in September, despite a steady recovery since April, due to weakened business confidence in services and, to a smaller extent, from a fall in construction confidence, a monthly survey by the University of Cyprus has shown. The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI-CypERC) for September decreased by 1.5 points to 107.1
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Cyprus upgraded France, Spain and the Netherlands from its high-risk ‘red’ to the medium-risk ‘orange’ category, while keeping its safest ‘green’ category unchanged under the latest COVID travel risk assessment released on Monday. The three EU member states, along with Uruguay, were pushed up to the medium-risk orange category, from which arrivals need to carry
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Following three consecutive weekly gains, oil bulls do not seem tired yet as crude oil extended gains for the fifth straight session on Monday. The world’s demand is not being met with enough supplies and this has pushed Brent towards $80. Inventories across all continents are dropping
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