New decisions announced

Students from abroad can now apply for home quarantine with a wristband while quarantine period for those from the UK has been reduced to 10 days. 

The following decisions were recommended by the Higher Committee for Infectious Diseases on Friday, April, 30;

-With the wristband application, the number of future charter flights for 3-night indoor hotel tourism has been increased to 6.

-Demonstrations, rallies and ceremonies in indoor and outdoor areas will not be permitted due to the increasing number of cases in the country. 

-It has been deemed appropriate not to organize activities such as the feast place, amusement park, festival area, etc., which are planned to be established due to the Ramadan Feast.

-Markets will be opened between 7:00am and 8:00pm on Monday to Saturday.

The relevant decisions will take effect from Monday, May 3, 2021.

Retail and merchandising services and all services / sectors not specified as closed will operate between 8:30am and 8:00pm while restaurants, cafes, patisseries and taverns will serve between 10:00am and 8:30pm.

People from who have been in the Netherlands, Brazil, India, Ukraine, Serbia and Africa will be quarantined for 14 days upon arrival. 

Meanwhile quarantine period for those coming from Britain and Denmark have been reduced to 10 days.

TRNC citizen students studying abroad were included to home quarantine criteria with a wristband determined by the Ministry of Health.

Curfew will be between 9:00pm and 5:00am from Monday and between 9:00pm on Saturday to 5:00am on Monday. 

On Sundays:

- All businesses and activities will be closed, except for pharmacies, bakeries, gas stations and agriculture, animal husbandry and industrial enterprises connected to them.

- Restaurants, cafes, patisseries and taverns will only be open for take-away services.

Closed Places;

-Cinema halls, engagement-wedding halls, birthdays, mevlids, casinos, bars, taverns, hookah cafes and lounges, all kinds of game halls, indoor playgrounds, internet cafes, massage rooms, spa, open buffet restaurants, night clubs, club, Turkish bath, saunas.

Open Places;

All institutions and organizations will return to their normal working order within the framework of pandemic rules. 

In open businesses, an arrangement will be made so that the total number of customers and employees will be 1 person in a maximum of 5 m2. In order to protect the social distance, these enterprises will be made to place a notice on the entrances of the enterprises regarding the m2 areas and the total number of people that can be in the enterprise, including employees.