Cyprus reported ten COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total to 1,395 since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health announced.
The new cases were detected from 3,202 laboratory tests.
One patient is being treated at the Famagusta General Hospital, while one other is on a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit of the Nicosia General Hospital.
The Health Ministry announced that two cases were detected at the airports, one of them is a Czech citizen who was found positive after random testing on her flight. She was transferred to Eden treatment site. The other person is a Cypriot who came from Paris and did the test at the airport.
Three other persons were found positive after testing on private initiative. One of them is a football player of Ethnikos Achnas, the second person had symptoms and did the test privately and the third one is a patient at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre.
Finally, five more persons were found positive after contact tracing.
Analytically, the cases were reported as follows:
Five cases were detected out of 205 samples from contact tracing, two from 1,549 samples at the airports and three out of 633 samples taken on private initiative.
Zero cases were detected out of 83 laboratory tests from GP referrals, 10 tests among immigrants, 623 tests conducted in the framework of random testings of 10,000 persons, one test conducted at Cyprus` justice courts, and 98 laboratory tests done at the Microbiological Labs of the General Hospitals.