A four-year-old child has been hospitalised in the Makarios hospital with a strep A infection, the health ministry said on Monday.
The girl is the first case hospitalised case for group A streptococcal infection following the recent outbreak and child deaths in the UK.
A paediatrician specialising on infectious diseases has arrived in Cyprus from Israel to treat the patient.
More information will be released at a later stage.
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