The Health Ministry on Saturday afternoon announced another five new coronavirus cases out of a total of 1,997 tests, raising the island’s overall number to 1,124.
On Saturday morning, fives cases were announced out of 990 tests processed overnight.
All these five cases were detected in Limassol, three from individuals tested on private initiative.
And two more cases were found from among 3,000 of the random samples being taken all across Cyprus.
Of the latest five cases, four came through contact tracing and the fifth – from Nicosia – was from a private referral.