Filenews 27 December 2021
The Ministry of Health recalls that according to the decision of the Council of Ministers on December 21, 2021, all employees who have completed their vaccination program against Covid-19 with the two doses for two-dose vaccines and one dose for a single-dose vaccine, or hold a certificate of disease (duration of 180 days) are required to present a negative rapid antigen detection test (rapid test) lasting 7 days.
- Checks by the competent services will start on 29 December.
- Each organization, company may set a specific day on which the employees will be checked for the weekly rapid test.
- The screening of people undergoing rapid tests on a weekly basis will be done by showing a text message or presenting them in printed form.
- For employees (18+) who have not received any dose of the vaccine, testing continues through the CovScan Cyprus application for a 72-hour PCR and a Rapid test lasting 48 hours.
- From the testing and the presentation of a negative test, employees who received the booster / 3rd dose of vaccine are excluded.
- For vaccinated persons or people who have been ill with COVID-19 or people who are exempt from vaccination for medical reasons, the rapid test is provided free of charge at the sampling points. This also applies to people who received at least one dose of vaccine and the period required to take the 2nd dose has not expired.
- It is clarified that if a chain of transmission is recorded in a workplace, all employees will be subjected to an examination without exception.
