Case fatality rate due to COVID remains low in Cyprus, healthcare cost at 100 mln

Case fatality rate due to COVID in Cyprus is at 0,46% while the healthcare cost for the pandemic hit 100 million euro, according to Christis Loizides, Executive Head of State Health Services Organization (SHSO).

Speaking during a press conference on Tuesday, Loizides said that since the pandemic broke out, more than 6,000 patients were hospitalized, of whom 600 in ICUs.

He said that SHSO in a short period of time had to restate its infrastructure and to install more than 300 beds in COVID wards including ACUs and to staff 65 new ICUs for COVID.

Source: Cyprus News Agency