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23-04-2020 12:42
Government begins random sample tests of 800 persons among the general public
Following a decision by the Council of Ministers, dated 8 April 2020, and a statement by the President of the Republic, the Ministry of Health would like to announce that as of tomorrow, 24 April 2020, it will begin random sample tests of 800 persons among the general public in Cyprus.The purpose of the exercise is to assess the percentage of persons throughout Cyprus with an active infection, but also to compare the percentage of an active infection among the different age groups and region...
22-04-2020 17:02
Payment of Benefits for the Special Plans implemented by the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance for the support of employees and businesses in response to COVID-19
Today, special benefits were paid to about 7,500 additional beneficiaries, after a personalized examination and correction of the errors that have been identified in the applications that were submitted, which mainly concerned the confirmation of their bank accounts.In addition, today 412 employers who applied for special unemployment benefits for their employees, following partial or complete suspension of their company's operations, were called in order to correct the applications they hav...
22-04-2020 16:52
Clarifications about molecular tests for COVID-19 on employees
The Ministry of Health would like to clarify the following regarding molecular tests on 20,000 employees:Following the announcement by the President of the Republic, on 11 April 2020 the programme to test 20,000 employees in the private, the public and the wider public domain, as well as in the National Guard, the Police and the Fire Department was put in place with the participation of clinical laboratories which had expressed an interest. It is noted that this programme was a Government i...
22-04-2020 13:06
Publication of the Statistical Service on the topic of “Intra and extra EU trade statistics”
The Statistical Service of Cyprus announces that it has published the monthly electronic publication “Intra & Extra EU Trade Statistics (by commodity and country)” for January 2020. It includes detailed quantity and value data on imports and exports of domestically produced goods and foreign goods, classified at the six digits commodity code level and by partner country.The main developments in Cyprus foreign trade were:(a) Total imports of goods (from EU Member States and from third co...
22-04-2020 09:14
The 4th batch of medical equipment and consumables has been received from China
The 4th batch that includes about 7 tonnes of medical equipment and consumables from China that will contribute even more to the efforts made by Cyprus to tackle SARS-CoV-2 virus arrived in Cyprus last night. Part of the batch also contains a donation of 140 screens of patients monitoring to be used by the Intensive Care Unit.The new batch also includes chirurgical masks, swaps for sample collection and full-body protective uniforms. All those items are going to be immediately transported to...
22-04-2020 08:43
Post Offices that will remain closed
Cyprus Post announce that today 22/04/2020 the following Post Offices will remain closedːLarnaca Airport Geroskipou (ND/SCH)
21-04-2020 17:42
Additional measures to support employees in response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis
Within the framework of the ongoing process of reviewing the measures taken to address the current crisis due to the COVID -19 pandemic and the declared will of the Government and the President of the Republic himself to stand in solidarity with the workers and following the evaluation by the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance of the statistical data obtained from the payment of special benefits for the period between 16 March 2020 and 12 April 2020, it was found that due to the...
21-04-2020 13:46
Arrangements to address the lack of seasonal workers in agriculture
The government, recognising on the one hand, the contribution of the agricultural sector to safeguarding the quality and the sufficiency of food for the Cypriot consumer and, on the other hand, the difficulties in finding seasonal workers for the agricultural sector, has made the following arrangements to ease this problem:The Civil Registry and Migration Department, in a press release issued on 13 April, 2020, announced that residence permits for seasonal work are to be extended for a peri...
21-04-2020 13:13
Tourist arrivals: March 2020 Tourist Arrivals -67,4%
On the basis of the results of the Passengers Survey, arrivals of tourists reached 55.342 in March 2020 compared to 169.934 in March 2019, recording a decrease of 67,4%. It should be noted that as of 15/3/2020, an entry ban in the Republic was imposed on several categories of persons, including tourists, as part of the measures taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Cyprus.For the period of January – March 2020, arrivals of tourists totaled 246.556 compared to...
21-04-2020 08:49
Post Offices that will remain closed today 21/04/2020
The Cyprus Post announce that today 21/04/2020 the following Post Offices will remain closedːLarnaka Airport,Geroskipou (II/IK)
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