The health ministry announced six new cases on Wednesday evening, bringing the total to 790.

Cyprus ranks among the top three EU countries facing the greatest external sector risk, according to Scope Ratings’ updated external vulnerability and resilience ranking.

Cyprus had a fiscal surplus of 1.7% of GDP and fiscal debt of 95.5% of GDP in 2019, preliminary data released by the Cyprus Statistical Service show.

Tourist arrivals saw a steep drop in March 2020 due to measures taken to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) reported on Tuesday.

Exports from Cyprus decreased by forty per cent for January and February 2020 in comparison with last year, Eurostat data published on Monday showed.

Twelve people tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, health ministry officials announced, bringing the total number of cases in the Republic to 784.

Revenues from Cyprus shipmanagement companies, by far the biggest money earner for the maritime cluster, reached an all-time high of €581 million in the second half of 2019, up €58 million from the first half, to reach €1.104 billion.

In 2019 the employment rate of people aged 20 to 64 in the European Union of 27 Member States (EU) stood at 73.1%, up compared with 2018 (72.4%), according to Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU.

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Thirteen per cent of Cyprus enterprises reported online sales of at least 1% of their turnover during 2018, data showed on Monday. Τhe same figure for the EU as a whole was 17%.