From midnight all passenger flights from Britain and Turkey to Greece are stopped. As stated in the Joint Ministerial Decision, the government is taking this measure for preventive reasons to protect public health from further spread of coronavirus.

France, Russia and the UK have called on Turkey to avoid escalation in the Eastern Mediterranean and respect international law, following its expressed intentions to start drilling off the coast of the Republic of Cyprus.

All the political parties in Cyprus have condemned in the strongest way the statements made by Britain’s Europe Minister Alan Duncan, who claimed that the Cypriot EEZ is a region who’s sovereignty is in question.