Новости за 31.03.2020

The government has decided to expedite the processing of pending passport applications filed via the controversial citizenship-by-investment programme, apparently keen to bring some much-needed foreign cash into the economy as it grapples with the slump related to the coronavirus situation. Tucked inside the raft of fiscal and other measures to...

By Evie Andreou and Gina Agapiou As Cyprus entered a near-total curfew on Tuesday night, President Nicos Anastasiades said he would rather be judged on the new stricter measures taken against the spread of Covid-19 than to mourn victims of the pandemic. He pledged that any abuse of power by...

Within the framework of its Corporate Responsibility and whilst striving to secure a healthy and safe work environment, Lidl Cyprus is taking an additional measure to ensure the care and support of all its employees, at all levels. As from March 30, 2020, and for the next 3 months, more...

Funds managed by York Capital Management (York) and Elements Capital Management (ECM) have together completed the acquisition of the southern perimeter of the Famar business – a leading provider of contract manufacturing and development services to the pharmaceutical and health and beauty industry. The significant transaction that completed on March...

Cyprus aviation traffic has declined by up to 91.6 per cent compared to the same period last year, following the March 21 decree by the transport ministry to close airports for 14 days due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. The situation is similar to...

Police were on Tuesday investigating a case of attempted murder after a man was shot in a house in the Nicosia district with a hunting shotgun. The man, 48, was rushed to hospital and his condition was reportedly not life threatening. He was being treated for injuries to his abdomen....

In a bid to decongest the unit and reduce the risk of infection, patients of the Paphos general hospital haemodialysis unit will be transferred to private clinics, it was announced on Tuesday. Head of the hospital Iosif Moutiris said the health ministry had approved the transfer of patients after one...

Greece reported 102 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, including 20 people on a ship and a female asylum seeker who recently gave birth in hospital in Athens, the first recorded case among thousands of migrants kept in overcrowded camps. Authorities said they were attempting to trace where the woman had...

The state health services (Okypy) will spend €20 million to buy equipment, services and diagnostic tests to combat the spread of the coronavirus, Okypy head Marios Panayides announced on Tuesday. The amount was approved by the board of Okypy on Monday, he announced. Most of this expenditure relates to all...

Revenue from tourism amounted to €40.2 million in January 2020, an increase of 1.5 per cent over the same month in 2019, data published by the Cyprus Statistical Service showed on Tuesday. According to Cystat’s passenger survey, the expenditure per person for January 2020 reached €469.98 compared to €483.26 in...

From a ban on shops selling Easter eggs to flying drones to spot people defying self-isolation guidelines, police measures to control the spread of the coronavirus have upset some Britons living in a nationwide lockdown. Some feel the police actions are heavy-handed and applied inconsistently. One retired judge suggested Britain...

Some clarity on how football leagues in Europe plan to complete seasons that have been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic is expected this week but there is likely to be a mixed bag of solutions with countries tugging in different directions. Meetings set for the next few...

Health authorities in Cyprus said on Tuesday they have started treating patients suffering from Covid-19 with chloroquine and azithromycin following the advice of the advisory committee on the pandemic. The health insurance organisation (HIO) announced that doctors were starting to prescribe a combination of azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine only...

The union of bank employees, Etyk, on Tuesday called on lenders to launch procedures so that the beneficiaries of government assistance programmes to mitigate the economic fallout from the coronavirus who do not have bank accounts acquire one without having to be physically present in branches. The call came after...

Scheduled gas drills offshore Cyprus will most likely be delayed for an indeterminate amount of time, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday, when asked about the fallout from the coronavirus situation. Speaking to the Alpha television channel, Christodoulides said the planned well in Block 6 by the ENI-Total consortium...

A man suffering from Covid-19 has died, bringing the total number of fatalities to eight, health authorities said on Tuesday, while 32 new cases were detected. At the same time, a woman with Covid-19 gave birth to a boy via c-section at Makarios children’s hospital. The two are doing well....

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday thanked the community of Pedoulas for donating €50,000 to help efforts for tackling the coronavirus crisis. The money was delivered to the minister by Pedoulas community leader Marios Theocharous. “In these difficult times our country is in, there are people who are shining examples...

As it continues its campaign to educate the public about the nature around them by focusing on a different plant each month, for April the agriculture ministry advises us to admire plants through photos it has published rather than enjoying them in nature. The plant for April is Tulipa cypria,...

Malaysia apologised on Tuesday after telling women to speak with a cartoon cat voice and avoid nagging their husbands during coronavirus lockdowns, a move that sparked a sexism row. Malaysia’s women’s affairs ministry issued advice on how to avoid domestic conflicts during the partial lockdown, which began on March 18,...

Chinese ambassador to Nicosia Huang Xingyuan said on Tuesday the first batch of medical supplies from China has arrived in Cyprus. In a tweet, the ambassador said he was happy to announce the arrival of the first batch of medical supplies donated by his country. The supplies include 5,000 KN95...

One new coronavirus case was confirmed in the north on Tuesday, bringing the total number there to 70. The announcement was made by ‘health minister’ Ali Pilli, who also said that three patients currently in the intensive care unit are responding well to treatment. He added that 29 people who...

The island’s civil engineers have urged the health minister to shut down all construction sites immediately until April 13, as it was nigh on impossible to adhere to the current decree of leaving open jobsites provided the number of workers did not exceed three. In a statement on Tuesday, civil...

The state’s contribution to the national health scheme Gesy was the main reason for the 33 per cent smaller fiscal surplus in 2019 compared to the previous year, the Financial Report of the Republic said. The Financial Report, which records the government’s actual spending and revenue for the year, was...

Banks play a vital role in the operation of the real economy, the central bank said in a circular to lenders, urging them to inject liquidity so that people could cover their current needs. The circular urged banks to utilise the temporary relaxation in supervision decided by the European Central...

Tuesday was the first day under the beefed-up lockdown measures as the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic increases, but many have expressed concern over the tighter restrictions. The new measures announced by Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou include a curfew every night between 9pm and 6am, as well as police checks...