Cyprus reported 13 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 1,318, the Ministry of Health announced.
The new cases were detected from 2,960 laboratory tests. Three patients are being treated at the Famagusta General Hospital, one of them in the advanced care unit.
According to the Epidemiological Unit of the Ministry of Health, nine cases were detected from 149 samples through contact tracing of confirmed cases, while two cases were detected from 1,672 samples taken at the airports, one other from 697 samples taken on private initiative while one more case was found out of 31 samples taken in the framework of the screening program in immigrant refugee camps.
According to the Ministry of Health, nine of the cases were detected through tracing of contacts, of which six did the test upon a private initiative. Two who did the test are from the cluster of a party that took place in the previous days, other three are persons who did the test privately and are contacts of a colleague who tested positive yesterday, one person was found positive after tracing and other two persons were tested positive and are family contacts of other cases.
One other person did the test privately due to a sheduled treatment at a hospital and was tested positive.
Another two cases were detected at the airports and arrived to Cyprus yesterday from Hungary. They were detected after random testing conducted in their flight.
The last case that was announced today is an immigrant who lives in the Kokkinotrimithia refugee camp and will be transfered to a designated site.
Zero cases were detected out of 247 tests conducted in the framework of the ongoing random testing of 10,000 persons, out of 27 referrals of GPs, out of 102 tests done among employees who went back to work during the 2nd and 3rd phase of the relaxation of the measures, and out of 35 tests done at the Microbiological Labs of the General Hospitals.