Новости за 08.04.2020

A newly arrived prisoner to the central prisons, who was only handed over on Tuesday, tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday night. He was among the 32 new cases announced on Wednesday. The person was tested as part of the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the disease in...

A 78-year-old man died in a car accident in Panagia, Paphos, on Wednesday. The incident occurred on a rural road in his home area of Panagia at around 1pm. The man was identified as Ezekiel Charalambous Stylianou. Stylianou lost control of the car which fell into a vineyard which had...

The number of coronavirus cases in New York state alone approached 150,000 on Wednesday, surpassing Spain for the most infections anywhere in the world, even as authorities warned the state’s official death tally may understate the true toll. New York and neighboring New Jersey on Wednesday again reported new single-day...

State support for businesses and employees has been extended until June 12 and if necessary for a further four months beyond that, the government announced on Wednesday. The main aim is to eliminate the need for companies to fire employees. “A four-month period has been set beyond June 12, whereby...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides urged parties to approve a government bill for state-backed loans to people and businesses affected by the fallout of the coronavirus crisis, warning that the country did not possess unlimited fiscal weapons. Speaking at the presidential palace on Wednesday, Petrides said Cyprus could not fight the...

Real Madrid’s playing and coaching staff have voluntarily agreed to take a wage cut of between 10 and 20 percent this year to help the club deal with the stoppage caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the La Liga side said in a statement on Wednesday. The club said the exact...

Northern Irish truck driver Maurice Robinson has pleaded guilty to 39 counts of manslaughter related to the deaths of Vietnamese people found in a shipping container in southeast England last year, police said on Wednesday. The victims, 31 men and boys and eight women whose ages ranged from 15 to...

Increased testing for coronavirus and the shortage of masks were two major causes of concern which were addressed by the government in an address to the public on Wednesday night. Increased testing among the population, including 20,000 on those still working outside home, will be rolled out in the coming...

Death and infection tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic spreading around the world point to men being more likely than women to contract the disease and to suffer severe or critical complications if they do.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care but his condition is improving and he can sit up in bed, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday. “The latest from the hospital is that the prime minister remains in intensive care where his condition is improving. I can also tell...

The government on Wednesday extended movement restrictions until the end of April without exceptions in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In an address to the people on Wednesday evening, Anastasiades said he did not want to cultivate optimism but it appeared that the measures put in...

A bridge on a normally busy provincial road in northern Italy collapsed on Wednesday but with virtually no traffic during the coronavirus lockdown, only two truck drivers suffered minor injuries, the fire brigade said. A spokesman for the fire brigade said the 260 metre bridge on the SS330 road near the town of Aulla, roughly midway...

Two people involved in what was initially thought to be an app granting fake authorisation to move anywhere for 48 hours turns out to have been even more brazen and bizarre. “How exactly they thought they’d get away with this is a bit strange,” police spokesman Christos Andreou told the...

Ben Stokes has unseated Virat Kohli as Wisden’s leading cricketer in the world, ending the India captain’s three-year reign. The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2020, published on Thursday, crowns Stokes as the sport’s pre-eminent player – the first Englishman to receive the prestigious honour since Andrew Flintoff in 2005. The award...

A powerful tropical cyclone battered the South Pacific island nation of Fiji on Wednesday, witnesses said, destroying buildings and causing injuries in the capital Suva.

Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has accepted he was in the wrong for holding a one-on-one training session with Tanguy Ndombele in a public park. Mourinho was pictured on social media flaunting government rules by meeting up with the midfielder on Hadley Common on Tuesday, even though they kept to social...

Thirty-two new Covid-19 cases were announced by the health ministry on Wednesday evening, bringing the total number to 526. Of the new cases, 24 were identified via contact tracing of previously confirmed infections. Eight are having their background history investigated. A total of 14,273 tests have been carried out which have...

While making blinis one morning in self-isolation, Natalia Goroshko noticed one in her pan had taken the floppy form of one of Salvador Dali’s melting clocks. The 31-year-old Belarusian living in Texas placed three blinis in her kitchen to match their position in the Dali painting, then photographed and posted...

Volvo Cars is moving ahead with plans to split its autonomous driving technology arm, Zenuity, into two entities. One part will be a new stand-alone company, focusing on the development and commercialisation of unsupervised autonomous drive software, and will be owned by Volvo Cars. The second part will focus on...

President Nicos Anastasiades is expected to address the people after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Deputy government spokesman, Panayiotis Sentonas, said that based on the current epidemiology data and experts’ advice, there was no room for complacency. He confirmed that the government was expected to extend the restrictive measures until...

The supreme court on Wednesday upheld a state appeal and ordered the resumption of a trial, which had been suspended and two defendants were acquitted, after evidence in the case was destroyed in a courthouse fire early in 2018. The Nicosia criminal court acquitted the two men in August 2018...

The ambulance service has handled a total of 3,625 emergency calls since the beginning of the Covid-19 crises, it was announced on Wednesday. It transferred 446 patients from their homes to public hospitals and took the ones who tested positive for Covid-19 to the referral hospital in Paralimni. According to...

By Richard Dickenson Whatever the Chinese call it, to me this year and every year is the Year of the Bike. And I don’t mean pushbikes with pedals you have to tread on to force around. Pedal bikes are OK for Mamils – Middle-Aged Men in Lycra – or for...

A doctor at Paphos general hospital charged Wednesday that medical staff were not being issued with protective gear because it did not exist. The head of the respiratory medicine department, Adonis Eleftheriou, who had fallen ill with the coronavirus and has since recovered, posted a request for PPE showing that...

Women in Cyprus are invited to participate in an online event taking place on April 15 with advice on how to keep away abusive partners during the stay-home restrictions. ‘Abused Synonymous: How To ‘Shut-Out’ Your Covid-19 Abuser Legally’ is a free virtual event via Zoom to be conducted by Patricia M....