Foreclosures have been suspended until August 31, the Association of Cyprus Banks said on Friday.

Cyprus said European Commission guidelines on lockdown relaxations for reopening borders between member states could see the island’s first tourists coming from Germany and Greece but not the UK.

Paphos is looking to Alexandria to establish a direct link between the two cities and has approached low-cost carrier Ryanair, according to an announcement by the municipality.

Two new cases of Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, bringing to 907 the total of those ever testing positive in the areas under the control of the Republic.

Deferred payments for loans suspended as part of a debt moratorium decreed issued by Finance Ministry to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 impact to the economy amount to €894 million with the total value of affected loans amounting to €7.38 billion, the Central Bank of Cyprus said on Thursday.

The Cyprus Committee of Finance convened this past Monday to discuss the new support package, approved last week by the Council of Ministers. The new package aims to mitigate the negative economic impact to the real economy, caused by the covid-19 pandemic.

The impact of the coronavirus outbreak has affected both financial markets and consumer behaviour as never before. A major transformation in customer experience in 2020 and beyond is defining the new global market landscape.

The Association of Cyprus Travel agents (Acta) appeared optimistic on Wednesday that tourism could pick up in the autumn when most countries would have eased measures against the spread of the coronavirus.

Two new cases and one more death from coronavirus were announced on Wednesday evening by the health ministry. This brings the total number of cases to 905.

Coronavirus-affected economies across Europe could contract on average by 3.5% this year with a rebound of 4.8% possible in 2021, according to a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development report.