Новости за 22.04.2020

The use of masks in the north will be compulsory from Friday, the ‘cabinet’ announced and gatherings during the month of Ramadan will be prohibited. The new measures were announced by ‘Foreign Minister’ Kudret Ozersay. Other policy changes include the extension of maritime transport restrictions until April 30. A slight...

Sport has to return as soon as possible for the sake of society as the world battles COVID-19 and going behind closed doors is the immediate way forward, Formula E series founder Alejandro Agag said on Tuesday. The Spaniard, whose latest electric motor racing brainchild is the crowd-free Extreme E...

Restrictions on everyday life in Britain to slow the spread of COVID-19 are likely to be needed for the “next calendar year” due to the time needed to develop and roll out vaccines or find a cure, the country’s top medic said on Wednesday. Britain is in the fifth week...

Concerns over foreign nationals living in cramped conditions was one of the issues raised at Wednesday’s daily health ministry briefing, but there are currently no plans for mass testing. Experts have warned that some of the packed conditions in which migrants live would exacerbate the spread of the virus should...

Football players wearing face masks during matches and training would be a “sensible precaution” to take to limit the spread of coronavirus, an epidemiologist has said. Sporting competitions including the Premier League and the English Football League are currently suspended due to the Covid-19 outbreak but are formulating plans for...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday applauded steps by a handful of Republican-led U.S. states to reopen their economies, but New York’s governor, wary of a potential fresh surge of coronavirus cases, cautioned that it was “no time to act stupidly.” About a half dozen U.S. states, mostly in the South,...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that there were “worrying upward trends” in early epidemics in parts of Africa and central and South America, while also warning that opening up global travel needed to be managed carefully. “Most countries are still in the early stages of their epidemics...

Employers and unions said on Wednesday they were satisfied with the additional measures announced by the labour ministry to support workers and businesses stricken by the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis. The extra measures are expected to be approved by the cabinet on Thursday. Social partners held a teleconference...

Two earthquakes were felt in Cyprus on Wednesday, one in the Larnaca area in the afternoon and one earlier in Paphos. According to the geological survey department, a magnitude 3.5 quake was felt in Larnaca at 4.55pm. Its epicentre was in the sea 26 kilometres south east at a depth...

The government will be assessing coronavirus measure relaxations every two weeks, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday, warning that the virus will now be part of everyone’s lives. The minister said that last week the virus transmission index, or R0, was at 1.1 to 1 in Cyprus, meaning that...

Britain could be heading for a post-lockdown “relationship reckoning”, a charity has warned, with one in eight people saying the current situation is leading to doubts about their other half. Relate found 12% of people stuck indoors with their partner were re-evaluating their future together, jumping to 21% among those...

The British government came under sustained pressure over all aspects of its coronavirus response on Wednesday as members of parliament got their first major opportunity in a month to hold it to account. With the latest hospital death toll from the virus rising to 16,272 in England alone and persistent...

The health ministry announced six new cases on Wednesday evening, bringing the total to 790. One man, aged 78 and with underlying health conditions, has also died, bringing the total deaths to 18. Of these 13 have been directly linked to coronavirus, nine men and four women. The rest had...

While much of Europe remained in lockdown, students played table tennis and made weekend plans at Kunskapsskolan, one of many Swedish schools kept open in a country that bucked the global trend of severe shutdowns to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Sweden’s decision to keep schools and businesses open through the...

David Moyes was handed a six-year contract when he was appointed Manchester United manager in the summer of 2013, but less than 10 months into the job he was shown the door on April 22, 2014. Succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson was never going to be an easy job for anyone...

UN Security Council permanent members China and France, as well as Italy, voiced support for Cyprus on Wednesday, as Turkey has once more dispatched a drillship to explore for natural gas inside the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). France said it was following the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean closely,...

Thousands of items of medical supplies imported to the north from Turkey just prior to the coronavirus pandemic had gone missing from the storeroom hospital in the northern part of Nicosia, it was reported by Turkish Cypriot media on Wednesday. However, the hospital’s chief physician Adil Ozgilkan said an investigation...

Cyprus is in the top three European countries facing the greatest external risks to its economy from the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, Scope Ratings said on Wednesday. Among 63 economies, Taiwan, China and Switzerland were 2020’s “Sturdy-3”, heading up the least vulnerable to external shocks. Inside the EU, Scope...

Cyprus postal services on Wednesday blamed the coronavirus pandemic for delivery delays after it received complaints from parents who had sent Easter food parcels to their children stuck abroad which arrived at their destination so late that the food had spoiled. The most popular items in the food parcels were...

US President Donald Trump said in a tweet he would sign an executive order curbing immigration later on Wednesday, in a move he has said would protect US workers amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. Trump on Tuesday said the new 60-day ban would apply to those seeking permanent residency, or...

A comprehensive proposal for the first phase of restarting the economy and the relaxation of movement restrictions will be presented to the president next week, a day before cabinet makes decisions on the issue, deputy government spokesman Panayiotis Sentonas said on Wednesday. Sentonas made the announcement after a meeting where...

Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said on Wednesday that he hoped the sector can resume operations by July but warned protective measures would have to remain in place as long as the coronavirus was around. Perdios told private Alpha television that they were now listening to the views of interested parties...

Shooting stars, known as ‘lyrids’ will be visible on the night sky over the course of the next week, the president of the Cyprus Astronomical Society Chrysanthos Fakas said on Wednesday. Fakas said the phenomenon started on April 16 and will end on April 26, but will reach its peak...

The Premier League has been asked to consider blocking a Saudi-backed consortium’s attempt to purchase Newcastle by one of the league’s major broadcast partners. The north-east club are reportedly on the verge of being sold to a sovereign wealth fund which involves Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for around £300million....

Emirates in coordination with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will be introducing additional precautions. Passengers on today’s flight to Tunisia were all tested for COVID-19 before departing from Dubai. Emirates is the first airline to conduct on-site rapid COVID-19 tests for passengers. The quick blood test was conducted by the Dubai...