High-level officials at Cyprus' Presidential Palace are under self-quarantine after the director of the president's press office developed COVID-19 symptoms, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said on Tuesday.

He told CyBC state radio that Victor Papadopoulos, director of the president’s press office, tested positive for COVID-19.

Following this development, Koushos himself and deputy government spokesman Panayiotis Sentonas, who had been in close contact with Papadopoulos, went into self-quarantine.