Schools will be ready by Monday to receive final year high-school students, the chairman of secondary education headmasters said on Saturday. The rest of the schools are scheduled to open on May 21. Giorgos Iosiphides said excess desks and chairs have been removed from classrooms in line with guidelines. The...

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Open markets in Limassol, Dherynia, and Larnaca began operating again on Saturday for the first time since the lockdown measures were enforced. The openings followed similar moves in Nicosia after the government decided to ease restrictions last week. “There is order, safety, calm and people are shopping,” Limassol Mayor Nicos...

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The European Commission will tell countries in the European Union to provide state guarantees for travel vouchers during the coronavirus pandemic, if they prefer people to accept the vouchers instead of cash refunds, according to a strategy document seen by Reuters. The EU executive is due on Wednesday to present...

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Russia marked 75 years since the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Saturday, but the coronavirus outbreak forced it to scale back celebrations seen as boosting support for President Vladimir Putin. With coronavirus infections rising, Putin last month postponed the highlight of annual Victory Day celebrations,...

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The finance ministry has slashed €367 million from public expenditure as part of a revision of the 2020 state budget amid the coronavirus crisis. The government savings were passed by the Council of Ministers. Giorgos Panteli, permanent secretary of the finance ministry, told the Cyprus News Agency that the savings...

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EU states should guarantee vouchers for travel cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic and start lifting internal border restrictions in a bid to salvage some of the summer tourism season, the bloc’s executive will say next week. Tourism, that normally contributes almost a tenth of the European Union’s economic output, is...

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Parents and children hoping against hope that the ease in coronavirus restrictions means that summer schools in July will go ahead as normal, may need to hold their breath a little longer. The Education Minister Prodromos Prodomou confirmed to the Sunday Mail on Friday that under present conditions, summer schools...

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A Cypriot national who recently returned from London on one of the dozens of repatriation flights has documented her journey and experience in quarantine on her Youtube channel. Alina Nazrulloeva, who posted the videos on her channel FOMOthevlog, arrived on the island a week ago after getting a call informing...

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One new case for the coronavirus was reported on Saturday, bringing the total to 892, the health ministry said. The case was found after an individual took the test as a private initiative. In total, 1,978 tests were carried out for Saturday’s figures. According to the health ministry, 161 tests...

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Two of four children found to have COVID-19 have recovered, while five of eight staff at group homes and youth detention centres who tested positive have recovered.

On Friday the province conducted 397 COVID-19 tests. Since the outbreak began New Brunswick has conducted a total of 17,426 tests.

The government said hospitals, long-term care homes, retirement homes, and women's shelters are in need of staff including custodial and maintenance workers. 

Two-minute silence held for father-of-four Augustine Agyei-Mensah, a highly regarded learning disabilities nurse

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Tributes have been paid to a learning disabilities nurse who died after testing positive for coronavirus.

Augustine Agyei-Mensah, known to his colleagues as Gus, was described as a “highly regarded team member” at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS foundation trust (NHFT).

Kanika Kapoor posted an adorable picture of her kids in a heartfelt post

Katrina Kaif accidentally started a live video on Instagram, winning audience’s hearts with her adorable expressions

Virat Kohli, Kriti Sanon, Ayushmann Khurrana and Sara Ali Khan joined forces for a video

Neha Kakkar turned to Instagram and shared some throwback photos with Aditya from their Indian Idol times.

Vidya Balan, in a recent interview, shed light on the many realisations she has been having during the lockdown

Sona Mohapatra recently called out controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma after he made a sexist remark

Indian cricketer took to Twitter and revealed that he had Bruno for 11 years

Arjun Kapoor shared a gut-wrenching post, wherein he reminisced about his life as an actor

Priyanka Chopra was given the choice of marrying Shah Rukh Khan by the actor himself

Richa Chadha releases a domestic violence awareness campaign to curtail its growing impact

Vicky Kaushal can be heard calling himself 'husband material' in a clip

Ashvin Kumar recently took a trip down memory lane and reminisced upon Irrfan Khan’s professionalism

Sara captioned the video, “Don’t pray for lighter burdens. Work for a #stronger back.”

Rekha and Amitabh Bachchan and their longstanding history together is no news for fans

Sridevi died on February 24, 2018 and Irrfan Khan passed away on April 29, 2020