This August, Cypriots must dig deeper into their pockets to pay their electricity bills after rising fuel prices pushed annual costs up by almost 40% due to Cyprus’ dependency on oil to generate power. Daily Phileleftheros, citing EAC data, reported that August electricity bills would be inflated by an average of 38.17% compared to the
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Cyprus is closing in on its end-of-August target of vaccinating 80% of its adult population with at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine to achieve herd immunity to coronavirus. On Tuesday, the Health Ministry announced that 77.6% of the adult population had received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 72.3% are
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Cyprus has sent 88 Syrian migrants back to Lebanon after they tried to reach the island on two boats. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris told The Associated Press that rescue crews continue to search for one of five men who jumped overboard after police vessels intercepted their boat off Cyprus’ eastern coast. Nouris said police picked
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Cyprus safest green travel category is shrinking fast with under ten countries from which tourists can enter the island without restrictions, following the Delta variant taking a grip. According to the island’s latest update of its safe travel list, just five EU member states are left in the top green category as Germany and Croatia
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Cyprus reported one coronavirus death on Monday, fewer than the handful recorded on a daily basis during the past week, while new infections jumped from below 200 to 333. The health ministry said in its daily bulletin that a 71 year old man died of Covid-19 complications on Sunday and was recorded in Monday’s results.
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Health experts are urging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, as the Delta variant of the virus is highly contagious and deadly even for younger age groups. Talking to the Cyprus News Agency, Amalia Hadjiyianni, Scientific Director of Famagusta General Hospital, said that the Delta variant sends younger people to hospitals, with many landing in
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Cyprus’ cabinet on Monday said it would revoke 14 passports issued to Turkish Cypriot officials in the breakaway state of the island due to their ‘hostile’ actions over Varosha. After the three-hour cabinet session, Cypriot government spokesman Marios Pelekanos did not specify which Turkish Cypriots officials were targeted. He said the decision was linked to
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Cyprus follows the rest of the European Union in administering a booster dose for coronavirus to vulnerable and older adults who had completed their vaccination earlier in the year. The European Medicine Agency is set to announce its recommendation on Monday, with health authorities across the EU already prepared to roll out a vaccination scheme
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Group Equity markets found support early Monday as bargain hunters considered the latest selloff in risk assets as an opportunity to deploy some cash. Asian stocks posted their biggest daily gains so far this month, with Chinese tech firms bouncing strongly off their year-to-date lows. US and
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Turkish Cypriot health authorities are struggling to stem a surge of COVID-19 infections after reporting 177 new cases and one more death, the third in as many days. The latest death in the north was an 80-year-old woman, a resident at a nursing home in northern Nicosia. According to reports, the older woman was the
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