Новости за 14.03.2020

A student organisation on Saturday appealed to Cypriot students studying abroad not to return for Easter in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Prodeftiki, a Left-affiliated student organisation, said everyone’s priority at this time should be to protect public health, as it censured the government for not...

Health authorities in England announced on Saturday a further 10 deaths caused by coronavirus, almost doubling the number of fatalities in Britain since Friday. The British government will ban mass gatherings from next week in an attempt to curb the coronavirus outbreak, an escalation of its crisis plan that critics...

The Spanish government plans to put the country’s 47 million inhabitants under lockdown from Monday as part of a 15-day state of emergency plan to combat the coronavirus, a draft of an official decree seen by Reuters showed. The government will say all Spaniards must stay home except to buy...

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia with my brother What did you have for breakfast? Coffee of course and some fruit Describe your perfect day The perfect day would be a sunny day in spring in Pelloponisos. I would spend the morning in my favourite café watching the...

Workers at the Kings Avenue mall in Paphos demonstrated outside the shopping centre on Saturday demanding the closure of the mall as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus. About 20 people from five different shops gathered outside the mall’s entrance at 11.30am on Saturday calling for the...

President Nicos Anastasides will convene an emergency meeting of his cabinet on Sunday to discuss and approve fiscal measures to support the economy amid the coronavirus crisis, it was announced on Saturday. Ministers will discuss measures proposed by the finance ministry to assist small and medium businesses, tourism, and the...

The coronavirus outbreak has decimated the sporting schedule and left major doubts over some of 2020’s biggest events. A range of sports have had to take action to prevent the spread of the virus, with postponements hitting the Premier League and EFL until early April and all football in Scotland...

The Paediatric Society of Cyprus on Saturday issued guidelines for parents to keep visits to paediatricians to a minimum as a precaution against the spreading of Covid-19. In an announcement, the paediatric society urged all parents to first call the doctor so they can assess the health of the child...

TUI Airways has cancelled flights to Paphos from certain airports in the UK, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) said Saturday. Citing unsourced information, CNA said TUI cancelled Saturday flights to and from Manchester, Birmingham, Luton and Bristol. Passengers were urged to keep informed through airport operator Hermes’ website and social...

The government will announce measures to support the economy by Wednesday, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Saturday. The spokesman said President Nicos Anastasiades did not announce any fiscal measures during his address on Friday evening because they were not yet finalised. The measures have to be costed and submitted...

From the first day of school closure, The Grammar School Nicosia and The Grammar Junior School have implemented distance education as all teachers already had the appropriate training needed to utilize the educational software in the online classroom. Our digital classroom is accessible from anywhere, anytime and from any device,...

A fire broke out at a home in Peristerona on Friday after a 17-year-old tried to light a stove using petrol, the fire service said on Saturday. The teen escaped unharmed. The blaze spread into the living room and the kitchen of the open-plan house, causing extensive damage. The fire...

By Ella Walker What did people eat for dinner 10,000 years ago? It’s a question Irish chef Jp McMahon considers a lot. “I’m always thinking about that period in time,” says the author and food writer. He finds himself endlessly intrigued as to whether the food then was “any more...

Countries around the world on Saturday continued to close borders, impose strict entry and quarantine requirements and restrict large gatherings in efforts to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Apple Inc said it will close all its retail stores worldwide, outside Greater China, until March 27. Apple reopened all...

About 138,170 people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and 5,078 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have now been reported by 132 countries outside China. Trinidad and Tobago and Ghana reported their first cases, while Algeria, Azerbaijan, Greece, India, Norway and Poland had their...

WITH the guidelines issued by the health ministry on Friday aiming to protect vulnerable groups of people against the coronavirus, many retailers are upping their measures to ensure the safety of their employees. People over 65 years of age are considered to be at risk, as well as people with...

ALL COUNTRIES are now bracing themselves for the negative economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. A slowdown of the global economy is a certainty, the only thing nobody can predict is the extent. To help member states cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus, the European Commission on Friday...

Only Turkish Cypriots and ‘legal residents’ of the north will be allowed into the ‘TRNC’  by land, air or sea until April 1, it was reported late on Friday. The move, effective from Saturday, essentially shuts the crossings down completely as Greek Cypriots do not ‘qualify’ for entry. The Greek...