One new confirmed SARS-Cov-2 case was announced on Sunday by the Cypriot authorities. The number of confirmed cases now stands at 986.
 
A press release issued by the Health Ministry, said that according to the Ministry’s Epidemiological Monitoring Unit one individual tested positive after 55 lab tests were carried out in the framework of the testing programme for 10,000 employees in businesses which resumed operations during the second and the third phase of easing the restrictive measures.
 
No one tested positive out of 131 tests for passengers and people who have been repatriated, 54 tests carried out at the private initiative, 22 samples tested in the framework of tracing the contacts of confirmed cases, 112 tests carried out by the General Hospitals’ Microbiology Labs and 246 tests carried out after referrals by personal doctors and for special groups screened through the public health centres.
 
Until this afternoon one patient was treated at Famagusta General Hospital, which is the Reference Hospital for COVID-19 patients.

CNA