First time J and I have gone out at the same time - to pick up groceries - since the compulsory mask in public policy. So J with coffee filter device and I with scarf. No photos available. Will really have to acquire something better if we try to use them long distance. These would do the basic catch-a-sneeze though, which is the point of them.
There are quite a lot - over 1500 anyway - of people who live in the North and work in the South who, like everyone else, are unable to cross the border. Many have workplaces that are closed at present, but this is likely to change as restrictions are relaxed. Their hope is that they will be permitted to cross for work, or even to live temporarily in the South. However, the indications from the South are that relaxing the borders will be among the final phases, fearing people may enter from Turkey where infected numbers are high (although not as high as the US, Spain, Italy France, Germany or the UK, even in terms of percentage of the population). The fear is probably exaggerated, or even simply politically motivated, as the only people who have been allowed entry to the North from Turkey are Turkish Cypriot citizens being repatriated and they have been collected at the airport and placed in government supervised quarantine.
There are quite a lot - over 1500 anyway - of people who live in the North and work in the South who, like everyone else, are unable to cross the border. Many have workplaces that are closed at present, but this is likely to change as restrictions are relaxed. Their hope is that they will be permitted to cross for work, or even to live temporarily in the South. However, the indications from the South are that relaxing the borders will be among the final phases, fearing people may enter from Turkey where infected numbers are high (although not as high as the US, Spain, Italy France, Germany or the UK, even in terms of percentage of the population). The fear is probably exaggerated, or even simply politically motivated, as the only people who have been allowed entry to the North from Turkey are Turkish Cypriot citizens being repatriated and they have been collected at the airport and placed in government supervised quarantine.
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