The Health Ministry plans to invite ICU specialists from other countries to Cyprus to assist doctors at the Nicosia General Hospital, the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Christina Yiannaki said on Friday. Yiannaki said also that the ministry was ready to roll out third doses as soon as the European Medicine Agency gave a green light.

Tourist arrivals for August and September are expected to be similar to those of July’s, but officials are not ruling out a slight rise in the near future, deputy tourism minister Savvas Perdios said on Thursday as hoteliers presented hopeful figures for the season.

Tourist arrivals in August and September are expected to be at the same level as in July and maybe slightly higher, Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios has told the Cyprus News Agency. Perdios said that new tourism markets will come to the front in the coming months and in 2022.

More vaccinations are necessary to avoid a worsening Covid landscape in September as schools reopen, said government coronavirus advisor Virologist Petros Karayiannis.

A total of 620 requests for appointments with 700 doctors were arranged online by the end of July, according to the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy).

Cyprus’ €1.2 billion Resilience and Recovery Plan (RRP) was approved by the EU on July 8, and there are already today a number of projects close to completion, and others in full phase of implementation.

The Cyprus economy is on a path of recovery and growth, with private initiative, employees and local companies as its pillars, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said after Q2, GDP spiked 12.8%.

Cyprus is among the top EU Member States as regards the absorption of funds from the EU Cohesion Funds, according to official European Commission statistics (August 2021).

CNN presented a documentary about the underwater sculpture park of Agia Napa noting that  the artist behind the world’s first underwater sculpture park has just unveiled his latest subaquatic project, a spectacular sunken forest located off the coast of Pernera beach in Ayia Napa, Cyprus.

The arrivals of tourists reached 297,308 in July 2021, recording an increase of 358 per cent compared with July 2020, during which 64,914 arrivals were recorded.