Cyprus adopts mass testing for COVID-19 hotspots

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A town in Cyprus that has become a coronavirus hotspot carried out mass testing Saturday as a climate of suspicion descended on the community amid ...

Mayor of Aradippou Evangelos Evangelides met members of the local municipal committee on Saturday morning in a forest outside of town as a way of meeting while maintaining safe social distancing AFP/Campbell MACDIARMIDARADIPPOU: A town in Cyprus that has become a coronavirus hotspot carried out mass testing Saturday as a climate of suspicion descended on the community amid fears the disease had spread unchecked for weeks.

Police and workers present declined to be interviewed and asked media to leave, saying that residents were fearful of appearing on camera. Evangelides said he believed the virus had arrived in Aradippou early, before authorities imposed island-wide movement restrictions in late March, and had been unknowingly transmitted in the community.

 

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