The Health Ministry on Friday announced four deaths from Covid-19 and 1,752 new infections out of a total of 68.678 tests all across Cyprus over the past week.
The Mediterranean island’s positivity rate between August 26 and September 1 stood at 2.55 percent, it added.
As for the total number of coronavirus deaths, this has risen to 1,172.
Currently, 42 coronavirus patients are being treated in state hospitals – 10 in serious condition.
And three patients who have ceased to be infectious continue to be intubated in Intensive Care Units.
The four recorded deaths concern:
- A man, aged 78, who passed away on August 26
- A woman, aged 82, who passed away on August 26
- A man, aged 87, who passed away on August 26
- A man, aged 83, who died on August 29