The Cabinet on Thursday agreed to move forward with a steady lifting of restrictions, as starting Monday each week will see additional relaxations culminating in the lifting of restrictions on food and drink businesses on March 16.

The health ministry’s vaccine strategy foresees the vaccination process to be completed by the end of September or early October, the acting director of the Cyprus nursing services administration Evagors Tampouris said Thursday.

In February, Cyprus’ economic sentiment marginally slipped with the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI-CypERC) decreasing by 0.1 point from the month before due to weaker business confidence in services.

Cyprus is one of six countries participating in the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Pathways Across Europe (Mappae) project, project coordinator for Cyprus Yioula Michaelidou Papakyriacou told the Cyprus Mail on Thursday.

April is the month in which the first bookings of tourists from Israel to Cyprus are set to begin. Although large flows of tourists to Cyprus are not expected at that time, it is clear that those tourists who will come will be needing tourist accommodation.

Ahead of the easing of the lockdown, the government will buy the services of 260 registered unemployed to strengthen enforcement of coronavirus related protocols and rules, the commerce, industry and energy ministry said on Wednesday.

GRS’ HR & RPO manager, Annita Paliou, recently became a certified Hogan Assessment Practitioner. Her certification acknowledges completion of in-depth training, which focused on using and interpreting a number of personality-based assessment inventories, including Hogan personality inventory, as well as motives, values and preferences inventory.

In an announcement, the Health Ministry noted that Cyprus is moving ahead toward the completion of one of its main targets, regarding the vaccination coverage of its population against Covid-19.

The mean age of women in the EU giving birth to their first child is gradually increasing and stood at 29.4 years in 2019, while the figure in Cyprus was 30 and 30.6 in Greece, according to data released Wednesday by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU.

Additional Extension of DAC6 Reporting Deadlines in Cyprus