Cyprus is among the top 10 EU member states to vaccinate against COVID-19 with 0.69% of its 900,000-population inoculated since 27 December. According to Our World in Data, an organisation formed by the collaborative efforts between researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK, Cyprus is currently ranked 8 among the 27 EU member
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Cyprus’ inoculation program against COVID-19 is to be boosted by vaccines from US pharmaceutical Moderna with the first batch of 1,200 doses expected to arrive on Tuesday night. Quoted by the Cyprus News Agency, a Health Ministry official confirmed the arrival of Moderna’s first batch of vaccines to supplement those already supplied by Pfizer/BioNTech. Cyprus
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While the Republic is struggling to keep the pandemic in check, authorities in the Turkish occupied north also have their hands full as January is already the deadliest month on record. With just 11 days gone, January has seen four people die in the north to COVID-19, as a direct result of cases spiralling to
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Cyprus is among those EU countries most vulnerable to a sustained drop in tourist arrivals due to the pandemic while it is also a “high credit risk”, international ratings agency Moody’s said. It made the comments in a note entitled “Negative 2021 outlook driven by significant economic and fiscal uncertainty.” “Portugal (Baa3 positive) and Greece,
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Investors will “pile into Chinese equities” in 2021 as the country’s impressive economic recovery picks up more momentum, but this should not overshadow the critical need for global diversification. Nigel Green, the chief executive of deVere Group, said that China’s benchmark index the CSI 300, which tracks shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges,
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Car sales last year reached their lowest ebb since 2016 with registrations in 2020 down by 18.4% with the pandemic playing a major role. It was the second year running that passenger car sales were in negative territory. Overall, Cyprus vehicle registrations recorded a drop of 16.1% in 2020 with passenger car sales down by
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Five deaths were attributed on Monday to COVID-19, as Cyprus entered its second lockdown phase since the pandemic started and another round of vaccination appointments was exhausted minutes after the portal opened. All five who died – four men aged 70 to 89 and an 82 year old woman – had underlying health issues. One
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Health authorities will not revise their decision for private companies to send 85% of their staff to work from home, as it would defeat the purpose of the lockdown. Under the second national lockdown to stem the surge of coronavirus cases, private firms that remain in operation are allowed just 15% of their staff to
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Cyprus should see a significant reduction in COVID-19 cases in the third week of lockdown, allowing authorities to relax measures as early as February. Scientists are expecting to see cases drop to 100-a-day by the end of the month, said Dr Peter Karayiannis, Professor of Virology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. He told
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Day one of the second lockdown imposed in Cyprus to contain coronavirus saw 472,000 text requests sent from people wanting to leave their homes on Sunday. According to the Deputy Ministry of Innovation, overseeing the SMS platform, 137,945 requests concerned shopping for essentials, and another 122,639 were requests from people who wanted to go out
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