Four elderly COVID-19 hospital patients who lost their lives to the virus in the past four days had not been vaccinated, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. All four pensioners who died from the coronavirus had underlying health conditions, but authorities attributed their deaths directly to COVID-19. The deaths were a 95-year-old woman treated at Limassol
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Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation on the 2,000MW electricity cable linking their power grids to ensure energy security. According to Cyprus Energy Minister Natasa Pilides, the MoU will be signed “very soon”, which government sources put at the end of March or early April. The
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Half of Cyprus’ health workers have chosen not to get a COVID-19 vaccine; it was revealed Tuesday following three frontline nurses testing positive for coronavirus after opting out of the vaccination program. There are three cases concerning nurses working at Nicosia’s Makarios children’s hospital neonatal ICU. Authorities were further alarmed after a baby has also
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will attend Greece’s celebrations in Athens to commemorate 200 years since the 1821 Greek War of Independence. Anastasiades will represent Cyprus at a military parade on March 25 (also a national holiday in Cyprus) in Greece’s capital and hold meetings with Greek politicians and foreign officials. On Wednesday, President Anastasiades will
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Fearful of rulebreakers, scientists advising the government on the pandemic will continue monitoring Cyprus’ epidemiological situation this week before deciding whether to ease or tighten lockdown measures. Health Ministry source confirmed that Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou would not be announcing anything following Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, as scientists have not tabled any suggestions. Quoting a reliable
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Hellenic Bank has recruited a new CEO, Oliver Gatzke, a former Big Four advisory partner and senior executive at Hamburg Commercial Bank, the second non-Cypriot to lead the bank in recent history. The 52-year-old former CFO at the Hamburg bank will bring his previous employer’s extensive shipping experience and as former CTO of the first
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Despite delivery delays announced by AstraZeneca, Cyprus’ vaccination rollout will gather speed when another 270,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses are expected next month, enabling 30% population coverage, said the Health Ministry. According to the updated timetable, the population’s vaccination coverage is expected to increase to more than 30% by the first week of May, reaching more
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Ankara’s failure to recognise the Republic of Cyprus blocks its path to normalising ties with the European Union, warned the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in his report on Turkey. He also argued that EU-Turkey relations would remain “extremely challenging” in the absence of Cyprus’ reunification. “The Cyprus settlement issue is a core element
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Cyprus tourism is in for another nasty shock after people in the UK were warned that foreign holidays this summer are ‘extremely unlikely’ as concern builds over COVID-19 third waves. In an interview with BBC Radio 4, Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the COVID-19 modelling group which advises the UK government, said there was
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Cyprus reported an increase in new coronavirus cases to 410 on Monday, as well as patients treated for COVID-19 and two people died, raising the death toll since the pandemic started to 245. An 82 year old woman and a 90 year old man, both with underlying health issues, died at the dedicated Covid reference
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