February 3, 2022

Cyprus reports 3,078 COVID cases and 222 hospitalizations, positivity rate at 2.67%

Cyprus Health Ministry on Thursday announced 3,078 new COVID cases and 222 hospitalizations. Total deaths are 736 and cases rose to 265,945. The Ministry said that 222 patients are in hospitals and 69 are in serious condition. Figures show that 74.78% of the patients are unvaccinated. The positivity rate stands at 2.67%.

The Ministry announced that 19 post-COVID patients who are no longer infectious, are intubated in serious condition in an ICU.

Today a total of 115,470 tests were carried out.

No deaths were announced on Thursday. Of the 736 deaths, 460 are male (62.5%), and 276 female (37.5%) and the median age is 76.3 years.

Of the 69 patients in serious condition 30 are intubated, 5 are in an ICU and 34 and in an ACU.

Today 5,552 tests were done with PCR method and 109,918 were rapid tests and the new cases were detect

Source: Cyprus News Agency

February 3, 2022

Foreign Minister Kasoulides meets with Senator Menendez, praises his support for Cyprus’ reunification

Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides met with Senator Robert Menendez in Washington DC and praised his support for Cyprus reunification.

In a twitter post Kasoulides wrote that he is very happy to meet again with a most critical champion for Cyprus. He also described Menendez as an architect of the bipartisan EastMed Partnership Act.

“Senator Menendez` steadfast support for Cyprus reunification & his allegiance to International Law, peace & stability is of unmatched value”, the Minister wrote.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. A numerus round of talks, under the aegis of the UN, failed to yield results.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

February 3, 2022

President briefed on course of works at Vasilikos energy center, gives instructions to speed up project

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades chaired on Thursday a meeting at the Presidential Palace on the progress of the implementation of the infrastructure projects for the import of liquefied natural gas and the delay in relation to the foreseen schedules. The project is being constructed at the Vasilikos area.

During the meeting ways of speeding up of works within the shortest schedules were examined, Government Spokesperson Marios Pelekanos says in a written statement issued after the meeting.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

February 3, 2022

Interior Minister seeks EU sanctions for airlines carrying irregular immigrants to Turkish-occupied Cyprus

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has asked for the imposition of EU sanctions to Turkish airlines systematically carrying irregular immigrants to Turkish-occupied Cyprus.

Nouris who was addressing an Informal Meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, in Lille, on Thursday, said Cyprus clearly supports a French initiative for the Migration Pact to move forward, but also noted that this will be easy to implement if particular key issues are clarified, an Interior Ministry press release said.

In an effort to contribute towards breaking the deadlock, Cyprus submitted specific proposals and the Minister stressed that now is the time for decisions, because Europe is in danger taking into account that it is likely that soon new additional sources of immigrant flows will occur.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

February 3, 2022

The entirety of Europe is now in the deep red category on ECDC’s map on COVID-19 epidemiological situation

All EU/EEA regions are now in the deep red category of the weekly epidemiological map of the the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on the spread of COVID-19, as the 14-day notification rate per 100 thousand persons weighted by vaccine uptake is greater than 300 according to the latest data.

The situation is captured on the first COVID-19 epidemiological map to be published on Thursday, according to regular practice, after new regulations and recommendations on travel between EU member states was approved. In the map that was published on Tuesday on the occasion of the new rules coming into effect on February 1st, part of Romania was still in the red category.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

February 3, 2022

Eurostat: Cyprus behind other member states on use of renewables in transport, but recorded significant increase in 2020

The EU has met the 10% target level for 2020 for the share of renewable energy (including liquid biofuels, biomethane and ‘green’ electricity) used in transport according to data published by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical service.

Cyprus is one of the countries with the lowest share of energy in transport produced from renewables (7.4%), but has also recorded the fourth largest increase among all member states in 2020 compared with 2019.

Source: Cyprus News Agency