Cyprus authorities announced on Sunday 15 new cases of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, while 10 of them were detected in the southern coastal city of Limassol after random checks.
The results were made available to authorities late on Saturday night.
A Health Ministry announcement citing Epidemiological Monitoring Unit data, says that the total number of positive cases rose to 1,139.
The 15 cases were detected after conducting 947 laboratory tests. In particular, five cases were detected after testing 132 samples at private initiative. Another 10 cases were detected after testing 611 samples from Limassol District, in the framework of random checks on 3,000 people.
No cases were detected after 204 laboratory tests on samples taken in the framework of a program to test 10,000 employees who went back to work during the second and third stage of a plan to gradually lift restrictions.