2021-04-22 17:35:20 GMT2021-04-23 01:35:20(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NICOSIA, April 22 (Xinhua) Cyprus government on Thursday approved a supplementary scheme designed to help people who cannot repay their housing loans to save their mortgaged primary dwelling from bank foreclosure, an official statement said.
The new scheme will supplement the so-called Estia plan, under which debtors were able to restructure their loans considered non-performing at the end of December 2019, a legacy of the 2013 financial crisis that forced Cyprus into bailout.
The statement said that around 1,850 households, either with very low income or without any immovable property, had been identified as eligible to apply for the scheme.
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2021-03-12 18:05:29 GMT2021-03-13 02:05:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NICOSIA, March 12 (Xinhua) Cyprus health authorities on Friday held back on announcing an expected wide-ranging lifting of coronavirus restrictions after a spike in new infections over recent weeks caused alarm within the government and the scientific team advising it on the pandemic.
They also re-imposed some of the measures which were lifted at the end of February, such as business operating with only 25 percent of their staff and a mandatory testing of 25 percent of those going to work every week.
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou told a press conference that decisions made by an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers were based on the facts that the situation among the community has epidemiologically worsened and that there have been infections at an increasing rate in assembly areas.
2021-03-02 16:06:51 GMT2021-03-03 00:06:51(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NICOSIA, March 2 (Xinhua) Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that he has accepted his invitation to attend a UN-led peace conference in a new bid to promote a settlement to the long-standing division of the eastern Mediterranean island, an official of the Presidential Palace said on Tuesday.
Victor Papadopoulos, director of the President s office, told the state-run CyBC radio that Anastasiades sent on Monday his acceptance letter to Guterres invitation to an informal conference to be held in Geneva on April 27 to 29.
He said that Anastasiades told the UN chief of his commitment, readiness, determination and political will to contribute to the conference s goal of resuming the Cyprus talks from the point they were left more than three years ago at a collapsed conference also held in Switzerland.
2021-02-24 14:35:23 GMT2021-02-24 22:35:23(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NICOSIA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) Cyprus COVID-19 vaccination campaign is picking up speed as larger vaccine shipments were due to be delivered on Wednesday under the European Union s joint vaccine procurement scheme, a Health Ministry official said.
Elena Panayiotopoulou, a senior official of the ministry s Medical Services section, told CyBC state radio that close to 20,000 vaccination appointments have been made for the current week, equal to one third of the total number of vaccine doses administered since the program started at the beginning of February.
She said that more than 58,000 people aged over 70, or about seven percent of the country s population, have already been vaccinated, and almost 20,000 of them have received a second jab as well.
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