Wednesday, June 10/2020

Does still look like the Cyprus N/S border will reopen July 1, though may require negative blood test to cross. Quite a lot of countries seem to be looking for blood tests, although it’s a less accurate determiner than they might like to think. Meanwhile the usual bits of posturing along with some perfectly genuine reservations. Workers who live in the North but work in the South have returned to work but are unable to recross the border to their Northern homes at night, leading to at least one man sleeping in his car. Ulus, always active in Cyprus bi-communal activities, posts on line that there are people prepared to find temporary accommodation for those who are unable to find a place to stay. It is in microcosm the world problem - how to rescue the economy while providing maximum protection to one’s citizens, but with the difficulties of Cypriot mistrust complicating it.