During the pandemic, Cyprus received more than 7,000 applications from asylum seekers last year with Syrians making up a quarter of the total, said Interior Minister Nicos Nouris. He held a video conference Thursday with Ola Henrikson, Regional Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for the EU, Norway and Switzerland. An
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Hopes the European Union can bolster its struggling vaccination rollout against coronavirus before the summer is out were reignited as a fourth COVID-19 vaccine came under review for approval. The European Medicine Agency’s (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) announced it has started a rolling review of a COVID‑19 vaccine being developed by Novavax. If given
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UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Thursday pledged Britain would play a decisive role in ending decades-long division in Cyprus urging all parties to make progress at a United Nations summit. “We will play our full role in helping to resolve the Cyprus problem,” said Raab after meeting Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides. “We are a
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Archbishop Chrysostomos II has denied demolishing four listed buildings surrounding the site of a new cathedral under construction in Nicosia which caused a public outcry. According to letters sent to Nicosia Mayor, Constantinos Yiorkadjis, the Church claimed to have been “simply clearing up the area after one of the houses, damaged by heavy rain, had
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Unlike several EU counterparts, Cyprus will use the AstraZeneca vaccine, once receiving it, on the general population including those aged 65 and above. Assistant Professor in Pharmacology, University of Nicosia Medical School, Christos Petrou told state CyBC TV the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which approves all vaccines for the EU, approved AstraZeneca for adults of
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Throughout the past few months, a risk rally ordinarily meant a weaker US Dollar. The DXY index, which measures the greenback’s value against a basket of six world currencies, slid 6.7% in 2020 recording its second worst annual performance since the 2008 global financial crisis. Expansionary monetary
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Cyprus, next week, will send about 4 – 8% of its positive coronavirus samples to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for COVID-19 variant screening, the Health Ministry said. According to the Ministry out of 24 positive samples examined between January 22-28 tested at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, nine
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Cyprus may target a wider deficit in 2021 than previously expected, but fiscal performance should still be strong relative to regional peers, Fitch Ratings said. Commenting on the delay in the approval of the 2021 state budget by parliament, Fitch said this highlighted “pandemic-related spending pressures, although it was primarily caused by political demands for
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Cyprus announced one coronavirus death on Wednesday and a marginally higher 139 new cases of SARS-CoV-2, raising concerns whether the government’s plans to gradually relax lockdown measures had been premature. ‘Lockdown II’ was lifted on Monday, allowing 50% of staff to return to work, up from 25% in January, with nail and hair salons allowed
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Cyprus registered unemployed in January spiked 23% annually, mainly pushed up by jobless rates in trade and construction which were severely hit by restrictions to contain the spread of the pandemic. Compared to the previous month, there was a 3.14% reduction, according to data published by the Statistical Service. On a seasonally adjusted basis, which
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