In today’s episode and following expanded Covid measures that came into effect yesterday, President Nicos Anastasiades said the aim had been not to impose a new lockdown. 
In more Covid news, Cyprus is among a list of countries projected to achieve the vaccination target of 70 per cent of the total population by mid-2022 set by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In other news, two men from Cameroon were found dead on Thursday morning at a house in Lakatamia in Nicosia, after they reportedly lit a charcoal fire to keep themselves warm.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.