A total of €700,000 in grants were presented on Friday by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis to 18 private companies operating in areas adjacent to Nicosia’s Green Line, as part of a scheme to boost entrepreneurship in the area.

A new electronic platform will pave the way also for transparency when prices of fresh agricultural products in Cyprus are to be determined, Philenews reported on Monday.

People aged under 50 who have booked an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine are able to change it, the health minister said on Friday.

People’s positive response to vaccination allows the gradual implementation of a socio-economic restart and the lifting of all restrictions, the health ministry said on Saturday, as more than half the population have now received at least the first dose of the Covid vaccine.

A total of 262 bank branches have closed in Cyprus between 2016 and 2020, Philenews reported on Friday citing data by the Central Bank of Cyprus.

Over €74 million from the €1.2 billion allocated to Cyprus from the Cyprus Recovery and Resilience Plan will go to strengthening the health system over the next five years, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday, presenting some of the details of the plan at a joint news conference with President Nicos Anastasiades.

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday morning announced that €23.5 million from the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan would be given to boost the Makarios hospital to cater for everything needed for children including their own A&E.

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The mandatory wearing of a protective face mask indoors so as to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Cyprus is here to stay, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Friday.

Israel’s Global Knafaim said Thursday it bought a 49.9% stake in the small Cypriot airline Tus Airways with a $5 million investment.