The Cyprus Health Ministry on Monday announced two COVID-19 cases out of a total of 622 tests. One case is a Bulgarian citizen, who resides on the island and returned from Sofia yesterday and the second is a staff member of an oil tanker who was set to visit a neighboring country on business. The Ministry clarified that the small number of tests is due to the weekend and to the fact that most οf the testing programs are almost concluded.
According to the Ministry 143 tests were done in the framework of passengers’/repatriates’ program and one case was detected. The contacts of the person will be traced. One more case was detected out of 153 samples from a private initiative.
No cases were detected after testing 4 samples from contact tracing, 130 samples from the General Hospitals’ Microbiology Labs and 192 samples in the context of a program to test people belonging to special groups referred by their personal doctors through the public health centers . The total number of COVID-19 cases on the Republic are 985.
Two patients are intubated in the Famagusta Reference Hospital as of this afternoon. Two patients are hospitalized at the ICU of Nicosia General Hspital. One is intubated and one is off the ventilator.
