Cyprus authorities said on Friday that they detected 11 new cases infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, after conducting 3,201 laboratory tests. The total number of people detected with COVID-19 in Cyprus rose to 1,406.
Of the 11 new cases, five of them were detected from contact-tracing, one of them after taken the test on a private initiative. In particular, one is the husband of a case announced on August 19. The couple traveled recently to Slovenia and Serbia and the case is symptoms-free. Another person did the test privately and is a contact of the relatives of a patient at the Bank of Cyprus’ Oncology Center, which was announced on Thursday. This case shows symptoms. The third person was found among the relatives of two cases announced on August 18 and yesterday, respectively. Two more people are contacts of relatives of other confirmed cases.
One person did the test privately on Friday, after starting to show symptoms on August 20.
Another person was detected from tests at the Microbiology Labs of General Hospitals. The person started to show symptoms on August 14 and visited the Accident and Emergency Department at Larnaca General Hospital on August 19 having shortness of breath. This case was transferred to the reference hospital.
One case was detected after a referral from GP. This person returned from Thessaloniki on August 18 and a day later started to have symptoms.
Three more passengers were found COVID-19 positive. One is a Cypriot returning from Mykonos on August 20, the other is also a Cypriot who returned from Corfu, via Athens, on August 20 and the third is a foreign national who arrived from Budapest on August 20.
An announcement by the Ministry of Health says that according to the Epidemiological Monitoring Unit, five cases were detected among 140 samples from contact-tracing, three cases were detected after testing 1,178 samples taken from passengers, one case was detected after testing 28 samples from GP referrals, one case was found after examining 131 samples at Microbiology Labs and one case was detected after testing 839 samples taken on private initiative.
No positive cases were found after testing 885 samples randomly.
Two patients are hospitalized at Famagusta General Hospital, while one patient remains intubated at the ICU of the Nicosia General Hospital.
