The European Commission sent more than half a million rapid test kits to Cyprus, with the aim to step up the population testing on the island.
A press release by the representation of the EC in Cyprus says that Head of the representation Ierotheos Papadopoulos visited two rapid test units in Nicosia, Friday morning, where part of the kits from the Commission were used.
Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said that the EC send these rapid tests to Cyprus in order to contribute to its efficiency to carry out mass testing.
She described the rapid test method as an important tool in the fight to curb the spread of Covid and spoke of the solidarity and the support to the member states