Cypriot authorities announced on Saturday two new cases of Covid-19 infection out of 1,336 tests, bringing the total tally of persons infected with coronavirus to 994.

A press release issued by the Ministry of Health said that the new cases were detected in the context of 504 tests among repatriated Cypriots or persons traveling to Cyprus. The new cases concern person from countries classified in Category C which require a negative Covid-19 test. The one of the two cases concerned a Cypriot living in Egypt who was tested at the airport and the second a person from Philippines who presented the result from a rapid test and not from a molecular test (PCR), which was not accepted by the competent authorities at the airport.

Furthermore, no positive cases were reported among 270 tests in the context of a testing programme of 10,000 employees in businesses which resumed operations during the second and third phase of easing restrictive measures, 131 tests carried out after private initiative and 51 tests carried out in the framework of contact tracing.

Furthermore, no new infections were reported after 1 tests as part of test programme of the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance, 164 tests carried out by the General Hospitals’ Microbiology Labs and 215 tests in the context of referrals by personal doctors and special groups screening through the public health centers.

One patient is hospitalized at the Famagusta Reference Hospital and one was discharged.