Cyprus Mail 23 April 2021 - by
The cabinet on Friday decided to impose a two week lockdown, starting on Monday until May 9.
The decision was taken during a long and reportedly fractious meeting of the Council of Ministers which Thursday had failed to agree on whether current measures should be extended, relaxed or tightened.
Health minister Constantinos Ioannou announced that from April 26 people would only be allowed one SMS a day and that curfew was being rolled back from 11pm to 9pm excluding Easter Saturday.
Restaurants are to be closed again and can only offer takeaway and delivery.
Physical presence in offices is to be reduced to 20 per cent of staff and half the staff will be required to do a weekly test, up from 20 per cent.
On May 10 Cyprus should be reverting to what is in force now. Ioannou called “strict measures for a short period of time in order to give a chance for additional vaccinations and take pressure off the hospitals”.
