Covid-19 & Vaccination numbers in Cyprus

Produced by Georgios Michail (ORCID , LinkedIn)

Website exists also in   Greek

This set of graphs on the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus is produced & updated based on data from the ministry of health.

Sources from Cyprus Μinistry of Ηealth: dataset 1, dataset 2, daily reports

The figures are interactive and you can zoom in to get higher resolution, or hover over some points to get extra information.

Daily new cases, hospitalizations & deaths

The first two figures show the time course of the positive cases, hospitalizations and deaths associated with COVID-19.





Daily new hospitalizations by vaccination status


The next graph shows the hospitalizations related to COVID-19 by vaccination status. Here, one can easily notice that the possibility to be hospitalized after an infection is quite larger for unvaccinated people.



But how much more likely is to be hospitalized after an infection if unvaccinated vs. vaccinated?


Some people based on figures similar to the previous one say that, if on one day we have 80 hospitalizations of unvaccinated and 20 of vaccinated people, this means it's 4 times more likely to be hospitalized for unvaccinated. This is actually not accurate, because when doing this calculation we don't take into account the overall size of vaccinated and unvaccinated sub-populations from which these hospitalizations come from. To be correct, we need to compare hospitalizations for the same number of vaccinated and unvaccinated people. This is what I show in the following figure, depicting hospitalizations per 100 000 vaccinated and 100 000 unvaccinated people. And here it becomes clear that the chances of being hospitalized if unvaccinated are from 5 up to approx. 20 times higher than when vaccinated.



And here you see the ratio between hospitalizations in 100 000 unvaccinated and 100 000 vaccinated people, which corresponds to how many times more likely is to be hospitalized if unvaccinated vs. vaccinated. Vaccination reduces markedly the likelihood of being hospitalized.



And what about the severity of hospitalizations?


This figure splits hospitalizations in 3 categories:

  1. Patients not being treated in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
  2. Patients in ICU but not intubated.
  3. Patients in ICU, intubated and supported with mechanical ventilation.

The line "Severe" in the graph refers to the number of cases assessed as severe in the total amount of hospitalised patients, independent of beloning to any of the above categories. This metric is useful because there are cases that are severe even if they are not treated in an ICU.



Immunity wall of Cyprus


What is the vaccination level for the different age groups?