COVID-19 has seen travel between Cyprus and Greece fall by up to 80% with authorities unsure when the situation will return to normal, officials said Tuesday.

The delivery of the first batches of the COVID-19 vaccine is less than a month away, with the Republic of Cyprus prepping a mix-and-match strategy to begin vaccinations early next year.

Exploration teams from the Nicosia-based mining company Venus Minerals have found more gold, silver, copper and zinc deposits in the continued work on their Magellan Project in the Northern Troodos.

Travel to and from Cyprus dropped by nearly 79 % from January to September, according to data published on Monday by the statistical service.

The Transport Ministry will spend €116 million on development projects in 2021, up €25 million from 2020, including the Cyprus museum, new roads, and the Nicosia orbital motorway.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) remains shareholder to the Bank of Cyprus after the end of its mandate to Cyprus, the EBRD Head of Cyprus and Greece Andreea Moraru said in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency.

Health experts are mulling over maintaining current restriction measures or making them even stricter, while the holiday period lenience that was initially announced could be scrapped if daily new cases remain at the current level.

The development of Larnaca port and marina will exceed €1 billion and is expected to fetch additional revenue of €120 million per year, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday during the project’s signing ceremony.

As of Monday scientists and officials of the Health Ministry will once again evaluate all data regarding Cyprus’s epidemiological image to advise the government of next moves.

Cash was the most used payment instrument at the euro area country level with the highest proportions in Malta (88%), Spain and Cyprus (83% each), according to a European Central Bank study.