COVID-19 cases hiked in Cyprus on Thursday. The Ministry of Health announced 978 new cases, one death and 162 hospitalizations. Deaths rose to 625 and cases to 148,663. The positivity rate is now at 1.05%.
According to the figures, 66 patients are in serious condition and 77.78% of the patients are unvaccinated. Moreover 13 post-covid patients who are no longer infectious are intubated in serious condition in ICU.
The deceased is a male 81 years old who passed away on Wednesday at the ICU of the Nicosia General Hospital. Of the 625 deaths 399 are male (63,8%) and 226 female (36,2%) and the median age is 75,9 years.
The Ministry announced that 25 patients of the ones in serious condition are intubated, 4 are in ICU and 37 in ACU.
On Thursday 93,233 tests were carried out of which 12,269 were PCR and 80,964 rapid tests and
Source: Cyprus News Agency