Cyprus reports 13 COVID-19 cases on Thursday

Cyprus announced 13 COVID-19 cases on Thursday bringing the total to 1,208. Four cases were detected at the airports. Four patients are still hospitalized at the Famagusta Reference Hospital in good condition.

The Health Ministry announced that two of the four cases at the airports are Romanian citizens, permanent residents, who returned from Romania yesterday and were tested at the airport. They display no symptoms. A third person is Cypriot who came to Cyprus from Italy via Athens and the fourth person, also Cypriot, who returned from Manchester on Tuesday. They are also asymptomatic.

Four cases were detected from tests done on a private initiative. One person is Cypriot and has no travel history, the second is a Russian, permanent resident also with no travel history and the third is an Indonesian citizen, permanent resident who was tested by his employers. He is also asymptomatic. The fourth person is Cypriot and was tested because he displayed symptoms.

Three cases were reported from the contact tracing process while one was tested from samples taken at the Microbiological Labs of the General Hospitals. One case was referred by a GP, having travelled recently to Zimbabwe and with symptoms.

All cases were detected as follows:

125 samples via contact tracing with 3 positive cases, 1,671 samples from passengers’/repatriates’ testing with four positive cases, 1,038 samples on private initiative with 4 positive cases, 134 samples from the Microbiological Labs of the General Hospitals with one positive case, 95 samples from referrals by GPs, with one positive case.

Zero cases were reported from 48 samples from persons crossing the crossing points, from 203 tests done at employees who went back to work in the framework of testing 10,000 persons , from 172 tests in the framework of the 10,000 random tests of the population.