Four new cases of coronavirus were confirmed on Saturday by the Ministry of Health, noting that all four came from 325 tests at schools on students and school staff.
A total of 1,564 tests were held, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Four tested positive as part the testing programme of students and school staff.
No one tested positive out of 85 tests on contacts of already confirmed cases, 197 tests at the Microbiology Labs of the General Hospitals, 172 from private initiative, 32 from the special groups testing programme in public health centers and 753 tests conducted on employees in the retail and construction sectors.
The number of confirmed cases rose to 914.
On the basis of the data until 1500 hours local time, four people are inpatients at Famagusta General Hospital, which operates as the reference hospital for COVID-19 and one patient was discharged.
Three patients are on a ventilator at the Nicosia General Hospital ICU, with their condition remaining critical but stable.
One more confirmed case is receiving treatment in a hospital other than the reference hospital.
The new cases come only a day after Minister of Education Prodromos Prodromou announced the decision to open the country’s Primary schools and Gymnasiums on May 21, as Cyprus enters the second stage of a government strategy to relax measures imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19. Pupils in the 3rd grade of Lyceum and the 3rd year of Technical Schools who already returned, will continue with their studies.