Cyprus authorities announced on Wednesday that they detected one person with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, after conducting 1,405 laboratory tests. The case was detected after testing 474 samples from people who were repatriated or from passengers who arrived in Cyprus. In particular, the passenger was detected after a random test at the airport on people coming from a country listed as “Category A” and more specifically from Bulgaria. The person returned to Cyprus from Bulgaria on Tuesday.

The total number of cases rose to 991, says an announcement by the Ministry of Health.

According to the Ministry’s Epidemiological Monitoring Unit, no positive cases were detected from 124 samples taken in the framework of a testing programme of 10,000 employees in businesses which resumed operations during the second and third phase of easing restrictive measures, from 235 samples by private initiative, from 23 samples taken in the context of tracing contacts of confirmed cases, from 277 samples from the General Hospitals’ Microbiology Labs and from 272 samples from referrals of personal doctors and special groups screening through the public health centers.