Hospitals 90% full over holidays

Hospitals across Cyprus were between 85 and 90 per cent full during the holiday period, with that figure set to rise over the coming days in the aftermath of festive gatherings, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Friday.

Speaking to CyBC radio, he said the high occupancy rate is “a natural consequence of the period”, and that many of the admissions seen during the holiday period came about due to “seasonal infections”.

Most of those cases...