Cyprus beefs up COVID-19 screening for all travelers from UK

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus connected Saturday toughened COVID-19 screening for each travelers from the U.K. implicit property 12, including requiring them to quarantine until results are successful from a laboratory trial performed astatine the airport.

Cyprus’ Health Ministry cited Britain’s “drastic increase” successful omicron variant cases arsenic the crushed for the stepped-up measures, which use to travelers whether oregon not they’ve been vaccinated oregon person recovered from COVID-19.

Under the caller rules, arriving passengers who trial affirmative astatine Cyprus’ airdrome indispensable stay successful isolation until Health Ministry officials interaction them with further instructions.

At the airport, passengers besides volition person 5 accelerated trial kits that they indispensable usage during their stays connected the Mediterranean land if their PCR tests are negative.

In lawsuit of a affirmative self-test, they are required to interaction a doc successful Cyprus and to acquisition different PCR test.

Cyprus has a sizeable British expatriate community, and typically much than fractional of each tourists arriving to the eastbound Mediterranean land federation are from the U.K.