The United Nations announced plans to hold an informal meeting concerning the divided island of Cyprus in April to look at the prospect of resuming reunification talks amid a growing gap between positions of Turkish and Greek Cypriots.
Cyprus will reopen high schools, gyms, pools, dance academies and art galleries on March 1 in a further, incremental easing of the country’s second nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, the government said Thursday.
Cyprus` epidemiological outlook and the prospects for relaxing restrictive measures in place to contain the spread of COVID-19 were discussed during a meeting on Wednesday, chaired by Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, with the participation of the political party leaders, Minister of Health Constantinos Ioannou and the members of the epidemiological advisory team on COVID-19.
President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades participated on Tuesday in a teleconference with the President of the European Council and EU Heads of state and government, during which they discussed about the preparations ahead of the extraordinary European Council that will take place online 25 and 26 of February 2021.
The Ministry of Health expects to receive tomorrow the results of the first 280 coronavirus positive samples that have been sent to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), to determine whether a mutated coronavirus strain is detected.
The Cyprus issue, the informal 5+1 meeting on Cyprus, expected to take place in April, France`s role and bilateral cooperation were discussed during a phone conversation President Nicos Anastasiades had on Sunday with his counterpart Emanuel Macron.
A total of 56,971 vaccinations against Covid-19 have been carried until February 17, in Cyprus and the vaccination programme proceeds on track according to the National Vaccination Plan, the Ministry of Health said in a press release. According to the Ministry, of the total vaccinations carried out so far, 37,750 concern persons, who received first […]
