About 150 Turkish Cypriot students studying abroad have been vaccinated against COVID-19 on Thursday, at the Cyprus State Fair centre in Nicosia, at the initiative of South Cyprus.
As South Cyprus government sources told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), the aim was to help the students get the necessary certificates for traveling and continuing their studies, by registering them directly to the relevant list of South Cyprus, which is the only internationally recognized on the island. According to the same sources, South Cyprus is also ready to facilitate more Turkish Cypriot students.
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South Cyprus has requested three weeks ago from the Turkish Cypriot side the list of those who were vaccinated with the vaccines given to the TRNC by South Cyprus, to be registered in the South Cyprus government’s database, in order to be able to issue vaccination certificates. However, as the sources told CNA, there has not yet been any response from the TRNC.
For that reason, South Cyprus is looking into alternative ways of registering Turkish Cypriots who have been vaccinated with vaccines approved by the EU, such as an on-line platform, to allow Turkish Cypriots to register their own data and documents proving their vaccination.
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The solution is expected to be announced within the next couple of days.
South Cyprus has given so far, about 160,000 vaccines to the TRNC, of which 40,000 were given in the past three days.
