Cyprus will ease out of COVID-19 lockdown with the last students going back to school on Friday; while people will be given an extra home exit on weekends, the curfew stays. Gyms and private tutoring institutions will be allowed to accommodate more customers and students. Maintaining their stance that exiting lockdown should not be rushed,
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Two cheques totalling €48,119 on Tuesday were presented to the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society and the One Dream, One Wish charity organisation by Bases Administrator Major General Rob Thomson. The money, which will help cancer patients, was raised at the annual Sovereign Base Areas Police Cycle Challenge in October last year. Covering 153 Kilometres from one
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Cyprus has reported Turkey to the United Nations for violating its airspace and infringing its Flight Information Region (FIR). Cyprus Permanent Representative to the United Nations Andreas Hadjichrysanthou sent two documents to the UN Secretary-General recording airspace violations and infringements of international air traffic regulations by Turkey in January. Hadjichrysanthou said: “It is regrettable international
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Hoteliers are banking on tourists from Israel and Cypriots as a stopgap until the island’s largest market, the UK, allows Britons to holiday abroad. Cyprus is opening up from 1 April to almost 60 countries, allowing arrivals without quarantine. Still, hoteliers do not expect serious movement until July, as the UK remains cut-off from Europe.
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The epidemiology state of Cyprus does not seem to be improving, with the number of new coronavirus cases still high on Monday, but the number of patient admissions dropping, with the government under pressure to lift more restrictions. With the current measures expiring on Wednesday night and Thursday being a national holiday, elementary pupils in
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Just hours after the national inoculation platform opened for diabetics and the severely obese more than one-third of 19,000 available vaccination appointments were snapped up within hours. The online Vaccination Portal opened on Monday morning with 19,246 appointments for individuals with Diabetes Mellitus or Severe Obesity, by 3 pm some 7,000 bookings were made, according
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Cyprus had €8.58 bln in funds and assets under management (AUM) in the fourth quarter of 2020, up 10.3% from the third quarter and an increase of 3.8% from the last quarter of 2019, the financial services regulator said in its quarterly report. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) said in its latest quarterly
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Cyprus has called on the public to use an online application dubbed as CovTracer-EN in a bid to put a lid on the spread of coronavirus. CovTracer-EN, the country’s national application for mobile phones introduced by the Ministry of Innovation, aims to complement Cyprus’ Covid contact tracing unit’s work. The app is designed to notify
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Eurobank Cyprus remained on a course of profitability in 2020, despite a 10% drop in after-tax earnings to €40.1 mln from the previous year, due mainly to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Announcing its financial results for the past year, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Athex-listed Eurobank Group said after-tax profits were €40.1 mln from
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Cyprus has reassessed its colour-coded COVID-19 safe travel risk, downgrading Ireland back to the red category while opening up to 16 other countries, including the UK, Russia, and Israel. Based on Cyprus’ three-tier list, safe countries are categorised as Green, Orange, Red, with arrivals allowed entry without quarantine once March restrictions end. The additional Grey
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