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Coronavirus: Vaccine programme benefits seen, portal to open Monday for those aged 29 and 30

May 10, 2021

A total of 354,264 vaccines had been administered in Cyprus by Saturday, the ministry of health announced on Sunday, representing 40.3 injections per 100 residents.

Of these 270,101 (36.5%) were the first dose and 84,163 (11.4%) the second.

According to the latest data released by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), this puts Cyprus in sixth place in the EU in terms of giving the first dose, and higher than the EU average of 31.3, while the figure for the second dose is almost the EU average, 11.9 per cent.