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Cyprus will close four checkpoints on the divided island for a week as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus, the first closure since crossings between the two sides were eased in 2003 ...
[3] [4] The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, [5] [6] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] In 2021, Cyprus was leading in investment for software and data, following adoption of digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Around the same time, someone anonymously reported the county's COVID-19 information Facebook page as fake news, and it was temporarily taken offline just as public officials were trying to warn ...
5 March - Cyprus denies access for five Russian military vessels to enter its port in Limassol. Whether the military ships could enter Cypriot ports in the first place is controversial, as the international law background is unclear. [3] 7 April - Cyprus lifts COVID-19-related travel conditions from April 18, ending rules of two years of the ...
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...
Cyprus was split in a Turkish invasion in 1974 following a brief Greece-inspired coup. A U.N. buffer zone separating opposing Greek and Turkish Cypriots is about 180 km (112 miles)long east to west.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Cyprus was a part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first case in Northern Cyprus was recorded on 10 March, when a local returned home from a trip to Europe . [ 3 ]
Authorities also extended a school shutdown until April 10 in a precautionary move against COVID-19. [3] 21 March – The country reports its first COVID-19 death, that of an individual with underlying health issues. [4] 23 March – President Nicos Anastasiades announces a nationwide lockdown between starting March 24 and ending April 13.