The total number of coronavirus cases in the UK has approached 1.5 million, with over 55,000 deaths recorded since the start of the pandemic.

In the last two weeks we have had coronavirus claim eight more lives from the UK Cypriot Community. In London four Greek Cypriots and three Turkish Cypriots and one Greek Cypriot from Liverpool.

To date, we estimate 324 UK Cypriots (Greek, Turkish and Maronite) in total have died from Coronavirus. The figure includes 287 in London and 37 outside London. Parikiaki’s figures  are derived after contacting local hospitals, Churches and Turkish Cypriot media and community, funeral directors and death announcements that have come to our newspaper

The total fatalities now include 187 UK Greek Cypriots, 101 UK Turkish Cypriots and one UK Maronite Cypriot, all from London. Included in the UK Greek Cypriots are three married couples and two brothers.

Outside London, there were ten UK Greek Cypriots and one UK Turkish Cypriot from Birmingham, three UK Greek Cypriots from Weston-super-Mare, who were all from the same family, one from Derby, one from Lowestoft, one from Cambridge, one from Cheltenham, three UK Greek Cypriots and one UK Maronite Cypriot and one Greek Cypriot from Liverpool, one UK Greek Cypriot from Luton, one from Southend, one from Glasgow, one from Newport, one from Leeds, one from Hemel Hempstead, one from Manchester one from Middlesborough, one from Margate and one from Wakefield. Four UK Turkish Cypriots, one each from Colchester, Maidstone, two Northampton and Suffolk, passed away, bringing the total number of UK Cypriot deaths outside London to 37.