Cyprus Health Ministry on Monday announced one death and 528 fresh COVID cases. Moreover it announced that 225 people are getting treatment in hospitals and 56 are in serious condition. Today`s cases were detected from a total of 58,097 tests (rapid and PCR) and the positivity rate stands at 0.91%.
The deceased is a male, 62 years old with underlying condition who did not get a vaccine and passed away at the ICU of the Nicosia General Hospital. So far 273 died of COVID, 180 male (66%) and 93 female (34%) with median age 78 years.
From the 56 people in serious condition , 28 are intubated, 5 are in an ICU and 23 in ACU.
From the tests today, 5,963 were done with PCR method and 52,134 were rapid tests and the cases were detected as follows:
98 from 784 samples taken in the framework of contact tracing, 8 from 3,456 tests done at airports, 76 from 1,147 tests done on private initiative , 22 from 368 tests at Microbiological Labs of General Hospitals island wide, 3 from 208 samples taken following GP referrals and testing at public clinics, 6 from 554 rapid tests done on private initiative and at the pharmacies and 315 from a total of 51,580 rapid tests done in the framework of mass testing of the population.
Based on rapid tests, in Nicosia the positivity rate is 0.67% from a total of 15,704 tests, in Limassol 0.75% from 9,954 tests, in Larnaka 0.87% from a total of 5,943 tests, in Paphos 0.84% from 3,316 tests and in Famagusta 0.61% in 2,310 samples.