Cyprus could opt to follow other EU states in ordering Russia and Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines to speed up its rollout, but that requires a political decision, said a Health Ministry advisor. Dr Christos Petrou, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Nicosia told the Cyprus News Agency: “It would be ideal to be
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Women in Cyprus are still paid less than their male colleagues with the gender pay gap at 10.4% but the island is taking baby steps in eradicating gender-based inequality. Although better off than the EU average of 16%, Cyprus women are still paid €10 less for every €100 their male colleagues are earning. In a
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With Cyprus’ vaccination roll-out against COVID-19 boosted with the arrival of AstraZeneca, allowing it to start vaccinating the over 70s, the Health Ministry has issued some general guidelines. The first batch of 7,200 AstraZeneca vaccines arrived on Monday adding to the weekly 6,800 doses from Pfizer and 2,400 from Moderna. Cyprus is to receive 69,000
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A second section of the capital’s central Makarios Avenue will close next week as part of an ongoing revamp of the area, which began last July costing €12 mln while causing traffic disruption. The Nicosia municipality announced that Makarios Avenue and parts of the parallel Stassandrou high street will close to traffic on Monday, February
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President Nicos Anastasiades will pay a one-day visit to Israel on Sunday to hold discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the pandemic, energy, and tourism. A Presidency statement on Tuesday said Anastasiades will discuss with Netanyahu “latest developments on the Cyprus issue, bilateral relations, the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, efforts to address
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A date and location for the UN-led five-party conference on Cyprus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres seeks to hold remains undecided, although it was scheduled to convene in New York next month. Guterres said last month he intended to convene a 5+1 informal meeting in early March. Cypriot leaders and guarantor powers Greece, Turkey and the
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Initial public offerings (IPOs) in the U.S. equity markets more than doubled last year, rising by 108.71% from the 195 share offers in 2019 to 407 in 2020, research collected by Trading Platforms has shown. This is the highest number in two decades, despite the economic uncertainty resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. Over the last
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The cabinet has approved nine incentive schemes to boost the coronavirus-stricken tourism sector which welcomed three million fewer tourists last year. Pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions saw Cyprus tourist arrivals drop by 84.1% in 2020 Announcing the schemes, the Deputy Ministry of Tourism said new and upgraded versions of previous plans form part of the
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Two elderly men, aged 89 and 93, died of COVID-19, the health ministry said on Monday, the first day of school as the retail sector also opened, lifting most lockdown measures imposed on January 10. The ministry said that the two men who died had underlying health issues, raising the death toll since the pandemic
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Nicosia and Athens reiterated their readiness to attend an UN-led five-party conference on Cyprus but made clear they back a federal settlement not the two states solution advocated by Ankara. President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also said Monday they were in favour of abolishing “anachronistic guarantees” and the withdrawal of Turkish
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