The Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA), supported by Invest Cyprus, organised and ran an online workshop explaining the intricacies of the EU Recovery and Resilience plan for Cyprus.

The International Monetary Fund revised upwards the growth rate of the Cypriot economy, compared to its forecasts for last April.

The epidemiological picture and vaccination coverage in Cyprus is very good and deserves to be congratulated, said Agoritsa Baka, Senior Expert at European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) during a conference in Limassol on Monday on Public Health.

Cyprus Health Ministry announced that COVID-19 booster jabs would begin for citizens aged 65 or older.

Cyprus welcomes the agreement reached by the G20 on 8 October 2021, marking the long-term efforts to create fair and healthy competition at global level and to safeguard the tax bases and public revenues of the economies.

In September, annual car sales plunged 19.6%, while vehicle registrations were also down by nearly 5% for the first nine months of the year.

The state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Monday its “effective planning” had proved decisive in the country’s low coronavirus mortality rate.

Cyprus’ Health Ministry is pleased with the country’s recent upgrading by the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) from the high-risk ‘red’ zone to less risky orange, attributing it to “the huge public effort”.

According to an announcement from the Ministry of Health, the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit has re-evaluated the risk category of some countries and the following changes will apply from Thursday, October 14, 2021:

The state budget for 2022 was handed over to parliament on Thursday, with the drastic reduction of the deficit being the key takeaway.