Cyprus reported 26 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases to 1,385, the Ministry of Health announced.
The new cases were detected from 3,372 laboratory tests.
One patient is being treated at the Famagusta General Hospital and one other is treated in the advanced care unit of the Nicosia General Hospital and is intubated.
According to the Epidemiological Unit of the Ministry of Health, 7 cases were detected from 190 samples through contact tracing, one case was detected in the airport from 1,700 samples, six cases from 682 samples taken on private initiative, one case was found from 166 samples in the framework of the referrals program of GPs and 11 cases were detected among immigrants from 178 samples.
According to the Ministry of Health, 11 cases are immigrants at the Pournara refugee camp, 7 cases are from contact tracing,
one other case was detected on a flight (a Czech tourist who came for holidays. She was trasnferred to Eden treatment site), one other case concerns a person with travel history to Slovenia and Serbia and after showing symptoms was referred to the Public Health Surgery. Six other cases were detected on private initiative, two of them are Cypriots who had a travel history and returned from Myconos and Thessaloniki, and the other four are persons who had symptoms and did the test privately.
The Ministry of Health urges citizens to contact their GP as soon as they show symptoms of coronavirus (cough, fever, shortness of breath, lack of smell and lack of taste), as any delay may spread the virus to other people.
Zero cases were detected out of 435 tests conducted in the framework of the ongoing random testing of 10,000 persons, and out of 21 laboratory tests conducted at the Microbiological Labs of the General Hospitals.