First Vaccines To Be Given Tomorrow
The first of vaccinations in North Cyprus against the coronavirus will begin tomorrow morning starting with President Ersin Tatar, Prime Minister Ersan Saner and Health Minister Dr Alli Pilli. The vaccines being used are Sinovac, created by China and imported by Turkey. Meanwhile, twenty one people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 […]
Turkey Sends First Batch Of Sinovac To TRNC
Over twenty thousand doses of the Chinese-produced Sinovac vaccine have arrived from Turkey this morning, Health Minister Ali Pilli has said. “This morning at 5:00, twenty thousand doses of Sinovac vaccines arrived from Turkey by air ambulance in our country“, he announced. The health minister said that 5,000 healthcare workers would be among the first […]
How EU Vaccines Are Delivered Cannot Be Politicised
Leader of the CTP, Tufan Erhürman, responding to President Tatar’s comment that if coronavirus vaccines were not delivered direct from the EU to North Cyprus rather than via the south, they would not be accepted, Erhürman said that “Nobody has the right to sacrifice the health and economy of the Turkish Cypriot people to populism“. […]
Turkish Cypriots Working In The South Face Quarantine
A number of Turkish Cypriots who work in the south, and have been unable to work since December 14 due to coronavirus restrictions, resumed work yesterday. They were offered the opportunity to cross the border to work providing they returned to approved quarantine hotels and dormitories. At the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, […]