The island’s travel agents are getting ready for next year in a bid to turn around the pandemic’s negative impact on tourism, with arrivals until the end of 2020 not expected to exceed one fourth of last year’s four million, it emerged on Wednesday.

In the second quarter of 2020 house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 5.0% in the euro area, by 5.2% in the EU and dropped by 2.9% in Cyprus compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the first quarter 2020 house prices rose by 5.1%, 5.6% and 1.1%  respectively.

The Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association’s new European office in Limassol gives prestige and consolidates Cyprus as a quality cluster of international maritime activities, the island’s junior minister for shipping said.

The health minister Constantinos Ioannou, accompanied by members of the government’s coronavirus task force, gave a press conference on Wednesday noon to outline the development of the coronavirus pandemic, since its outbreak in the Republic of Cyprus some seven months ago.

The Republic of Cyprus on Tuesday downgraded four countries in its three-tier risk-based classification of countries, with the updated travel list to come into effect on October 9.

Cyprus has had one of the smallest per capita imports of extra face masks in the EU in the first half of 2020, at €8 per person, Eurostat reported.

Eight in 10 Cypriots said they have very good or good state of health, according to the findings of the European Health Interview Survey for 2019 that the Statistical Service released today.

The EuroAsia Interconnector electricity cable, investing in research and innovation in energy storage are two key factors that will help Cyprus achieve its climate targets of emission reduction.

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EY Cyprus was the proud Platinum Sponsor at the Cyprus Forum, an independent annual conference, organised for the first time in Cyprus by the non-profit organisation Oxygono, in association with the Delphi Economic Forum, on Saturday, 3rd October 2020, at the Nicosia Municipal Theatre. The Forum marks the 60th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Republic of Cyprus, bringing together local and foreign political leaders, important figures from the public and the private sector, the media, academia and civic society, with the aim of initiating dialogue, exchanging ideas and finding new and creative solutions to key areas of public policy.