FOURTEEN NEW CASES TODAY

 Filenews 25 August 2020 

The Ministry of Health informs that, according to an update received today by the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit from contracting laboratories, a total of 2,769 laboratory diagnoses identified 14 new cases of COVID-19 disease.

In detail, virus-positive individuals emerged as follows:

• Of 1,415 samples taken as part of a passenger and repatriated check, 2 cases were identified.
• Of 111 samples taken from the Microbiological Laboratories of the General Hospitals, 1 case was identified.
• Of 164 samples taken through the process of tracing contacts of already confirmed cases, 5 cases were identified.
• Of 859 samples taken through a private initiative, 5 cases were identified.
• Of 218 samples taken as part of the referral programme by Personal Physicians and special teams control through the Public Health Clinics, 1 case was identified.

It is noted that the current cases have resulted as follows:

• 5 x tracing, 3 of which through a private initiative:

1. One person had returned to Cyprus by flight from Athens on 20/8. He has no symptoms, but he stayed in the same house as his viral-positive partner.
2. Two people are contacts from the family environment of the same case and did the test privately. They don't have any symptoms.
3. The other two are contacts from the family case environment. They're a couple.

• 5 x private initiative:

1. The 1st person is a Greek with a travel history in Greece.
2. Two people are a Russian couple living permanently in Cyprus with a travel history in Russia. The woman reports symptoms on 12/8 and the man reports symptoms on 13/8.
3. The fourth person took the test privately due to symptoms he had on 23/8.
4. The 5th person has a travel history in Mykonos. He has no symptoms.

• 2 x flights: These are two Greeks (male and female), permanent residents of Cyprus, who are not related to each other and came from Thessaloniki on the same flight on 24/8.
• 1 x Microbiological laboratories: This is a person who returned from Athens on 21/8 and had symptoms on 23/8.
• 1 x Public Health Clinics: Referred by the Physician's Staff due to symptoms.

In Famagusta we have 3 patients, one of whom in the Increased Care Unit and in Nicosia a patient intubated in the ICU.

In addition, the following laboratory tests were carried out, without the detection of a case:

• From a program carried out by the Ministry of Justice and Public Order for the control of staff working on the premises of the Courts, we had a result for 1 sample, and
• From the student control program, a laboratory examination was carried out.

Therefore, and on the basis of the data so far, the total number of positive cases is 1,474.

In addition, three COVID-19 patients were admitted to Famagusta General Hospital yesterday and three COVID-19 patients are being treated in a ward, one of whom is in the Increased Care Unit. In the Intensive Care Unit of the Nicosia General Hospital, a patient is hospitalized.