Новости за 23.03.2020

By William James and Andy Bruce Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Britons on Monday to stay at home to halt the spread of coronavirus, imposing curbs on everyday life without precedent in peacetime. All but essential shops must close immediately and people should no longer meet family or friends or...

A 65-year-old man held in the central prison in Nicosia pending an extradition process has been placed in isolation after complaining the facility had failed to take proper protection measures against the coronavirus, his lawyers said on Monday. The man, who has been remanded on an EU arrest warrant issued...

Air pollution has significantly decreased in urban areas over the last ten days, head of the air quality and strategic planning section Chrysanthos Savvides confirmed on Monday. A look at air quality data available shows the air has rarely been so clean, said Savvides, confirming this was because of a...

The Dutch government on Monday said it would strengthen an existing ban on public gatherings and extend it until June 1 as the Netherlands grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, in what Prime Minister Mark Rutte termed a “targeted lockdown”. Previously, gatherings of more than 100 people had been banned through April, though...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday announced draconian measures including restrictions in movement and the closures of public places, as the government seeks to stop the spread of the coronavirus, which totalled 155 cases island-wide. “An out-of-control spread of the cases will lead to the collapse of the health system, which...

Britain sent in the army to deliver protective equipment to hospitals on Monday and told people to stay at home and heed warnings over social distancing or the government would bring in more extreme measures to stop the coronavirus spread. With some doctors saying they felt like “cannon fodder”, the...

This season’s Champions League, Europa League and women’s Champions League finals scheduled for May have been formally postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, European soccer’s governing body UEFA said on Tuesday. All three competitions are currently suspended along with almost every European domestic league because of the coronavirus while UEFA last week postponed the Euro 2020 tournament until next...

Unions and other workers groups called on Monday for intensified measures on public transport and work sites to stop the spread of coronavirus. The Peo section of transport workers called for increased measures on buses such as an interrupted supply of disinfectants and safety gear for workers. They also called...

Not all businesses face catastrophe due to the coronavirus outbreak. Investors see some winners, including home exercise firms, food delivery and home office gear makers.

The European Union urged its 27 members on Monday to unblock their borders and allow freight vehicles to cross from one country to another within 15 minutes to ensure the flow of basic supplies and medical equipment. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a video statement that...

Greece’s largest carrier Aegean Airlines said on Monday it will suspend all of its international flights from March 26 to April 30 as a result of the spread of the coronavirus and flight restrictions. Aegean, a member of the Star Alliance group, said the safety of passengers and crews and...

Twenty-one new Covid-19 cases were announced by the health ministry on Monday evening, bringing the number to 116 in the government-controlled areas, 39 in the north, making a total of 155 islandwide. Twelve of the new infections relate to contacts with previously confirmed cases and were tracked via contact tracing....

More countries imposed lockdown measures as coronavirus cases across the globe ballooned, led by a sharp rise in infections in Europe. Italy banned travel within the country, nearly one in three Americans were ordered to stay home and New Zealand said it will move to its highest alert level imposing...

Brussels said on Monday it had earmarked €5m to support the Turkish Cypriot community’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Three new cases were recorded in the north on Sunday, all Turkish Cypriots who had been in contact with confirmed cases. This brought the number of cases in the north to...

The police issued a warning on Monday about phone scammers seeking to collect people’s bank account details. The central bank told the police phone scammers are pretending to work for the bank, and telling individuals that their accounts will be frozen if they do not hand over details of their...

Amid growing calls for an internal lockdown to contain coronavirus contagion, the government was on Monday said to be preparing a revised stimulus and relief package worth some €1.5 billion, as well as a plan to guarantee up to €2bn in bank loans to businesses and self-employed people. Citing a...

Approximately 3,500 Covid-19 tests were carried out up until March 22, the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (Cing) announced on Monday. Cing’s chief executive medical director Leonidas Phylactou told the Cyprus News Agency that the number of samples tested by the institute is larger than many other countries in...

From shutting off the headlines to limiting social media, actor Aaron Paul says he has cracked the code when it comes to sustaining a positive, happy future. He tells Gemma Dunn he feels better than ever Aaron Paul has taken his future into his own hands – at least where technology is...

At Italy’s Oglio Po hospital, 25 out of 90 doctors are infected with the coronavirus, compounding the strain faced by a health system overwhelmed by the world’s second biggest outbreak. Adding in nurses, technicians and other employees, a fifth of the hospital’s personnel has tested positive, hospital director Daniela Ferrari...

Premier League clubs will gather again on April 3 to discuss next steps amid the coronavirus pandemic. It was announced last week that English professional football had been put on hold until April 30 at the earliest. It is understood the April 3 date had already been pencilled in as...

For more than 30 years, JCC has been supporting businesses and the financial services sector in Cyprus, guided by the central premise of security and reliability in every type of service JCC has been providing. These same principles are guiding our response to the difficult challenge of the coronavirus epidemic...

Worried about whether you have enough toilet paper for the coronavirus lockdown? A German website can tell you how long your supply will last. Toilet paper has become one of the commodities shoppers across the world have hoarded as the coronavirus crisis forces people to stay indoors. The website Blitzrechner.de...

Pharmacists said on Monday they are experiencing delays in the supply of medicines from companies but there were no major shortages. The head of the pharmacist associations, Eleni Piera, said there was some delay in the medicines reaching them from the warehouses. She said certain companies sometimes took 48 hours...

Despite grumbling by some customers who were unaware on Monday that new regulations meant only people over 60, and the vulnerable could shop at supermarkets between 7am and 10am on producing ID, most people fully complied supermarkets said. A manager at a popular supermarket in Pallouriotissa, Nicosia, said some customers...

The Larnaca municipality has urged the public to donate food and money to its social grocery store programme. In a statement published on Monday, municipal authorities have called on the public “to support the elderly and the vulnerable as many are left without income and food after the temporary closure...