The Cyprus Health Ministry announced on Friday three deaths in the last week from COVID and 2,602 new cases. The positivity rate now stands at 4.86% and 84 patients are in hospital.
The deceased are two men and one woman between 79-91 years of age. Total deaths since the pandemic broke out rose to 1,258. Out of the 84 patients in hospital, eight are in serious condition and three who are no longer infectious are intubated in the ICU.
A total of 53,528 tests were conducted of which 1,489 were PCR of which 208 positive cases were detected (positivity rate PR 13.97%)
Total number of Rapid Tests were 52,039 and 2,394 came back positive (PR 4.6%).
On private initiative 1,039 PCR tests were carried out and 116 were detected (PR 11.16%) while the rapid tests were 32,396 and 2,235 cases were reported (PR 6.9%).
A total of 19,643 tests were done via the Ministry’s programmes and 159 cases were detected while at testing points 126 cases were reported from 13,917 rapid tests (PR 0.91%).
In nursing homes 30 cases were detected from 4,199 rapid tests (PR 0.71%) while in closed units 1,527 tests were performed and 3 cases were found (PR 0.2%).
Source: Cyprus News Agency