Cyprus authorities on Thursday announced five new COVID-19 cases. Two cases are passengers who arrived from Israel and Iraq, via Dubai and the other three are contacts of already confirmed cases. The total number of cases is 1,045.
According to the Health Ministry, the first case is a passenger who travelled from Israel on July 21 on special permit. The COVID-19 test the person submitted was negative and a test on private initiative was conducted which came back positive.
The second person is a Canadian, resident of Cyprus who travelled from Iraq via Dubai yesterday. She submitted a negative antibodies test which was not accepted and she took the COVID-19 test at the airport. The test came back positive.
The other three cases according to the Ministry are family contacts of an already confirmed case of a Cypriot citizen who was tested positive on July 21. One person displayed symptoms.
The Ministry said that a total of 1,575 tests were done the last 24 hours as follows:
-one positive case out of 418 samples on private initiative
-one positive case out of 738 samples taken at airports in the framework or passengers/repatriates testing
-three cases out of 94 tests through tracing of contacts of confirmed cases
No cases were detected out of 79 tests as part of referrals from personal doctors and special groups screening through the public health centres, out of 125 tests in the context of checking 10,000 employees who went back to work during phase B and C of easing restrictive measures, out of one test done for personel at the Courts and out of 93 tests carried out by the Microbiological Labs of General Hospitals island-wide.