The 500,000 doses of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine delivered on Friday by the European Commission to the Republic of Cyprus were handed over to the Turkish Cypriots on the same day, the Director of Veterinary Services, Christodoulos Pipis, told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) on Saturday. At the same time, he assured that the appropriate checks have been carried out for possible incidents in areas controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus, with the results of the tests being negative.