Two new COVID-19 cases announced on Tuesday

Two COVID-19 cases were reported in Cyprus after conducting 1,067 laboratory tests, authorities announced on Tuesday. One case is a pregnant woman who was tested for the virus before giving birth and the other is a person that was tested before having an operation. The total number of cases rose to 990.
 
A press release by the Ministry of Health says that according to the Ministry’s Epidemiological Monitoring Unit, both cases were detected after testing 172 samples from referrals of personal doctors and special groups screening through the public health centers.

Moreover, no positive cases were detected among 211 samples taken in the framework of a testing programme of 10,000 employees in businesses which resumed operations during the second and third phase of easing restrictive measures, 370 samples by private initiative, 28 samples taken in the context of the tracing contacts of confirmed cases, 173 samples from the General Hospitals’ Microbiology Labs and 113 samples from people who were repatriated or passengers who arrived in Cyprus.