Bermuda has recorded another 24 cases of Covid-19 - which brought the number of active infections to 126.

The positive results came from 1,239 tests conducted yesterday.

A total of 14 of the new cases were classed as on-island transmissions with identified contacts associated with known cases or clusters.

The remaining ten cases are classified as under investigation, although they are among residents with no history of travel.

Bermuda has now had 364 total confirmed positive cases.

Of the active cases, 124 are under public health monitoring and while two are still hospitalised. One person is in critical care.

A total of 229 have recovered, and the total deceased remains at nine.

The mean age of all confirmed positive cases is 46 years (median: 43 years) and the age range is to 101 years.

The mean age of all active cases is 34 years (median: 26 years) and the age range is 0 to 68 years.

The average age of all deceased cases is 74 years and the age range is 57 to 91 years.

The source of all cases is as follows: 129 are Imported; 179 are local transmission with a known contact/source; 21 are local transmission with an unknown contact/source; and 35 are under investigation.

As investigations proceed, transmission categories may change.

The seven-day average of Bermuda’s real time reproduction number is greater than 1 (1.57) and Bermuda’s current country status is ’clusters of cases’.

This afternoon Kim Wilson, the health minister, stressed that anyone with close links to someone who has tested positive must quarantine.

"If you live with someone who tested positive for Covid-19 then you must quarantine at home for 14 days and test at the start and on or after day 14,“ Ms Wilson said.

“If you are a non-household close contact of a positive case and were within six feet of them with no mask for 15 minutes or longer, you must quarantine at home for 14 days and test at the start and on or after day 14.

“If someone you live with is a close contact of a positive case, you must ask yourself whether you can safely separate at your home. If the answer is 'no' then you must quarantine at home for 14 days.

If the answer is 'yes', then you must wear a mask and avoid the three Cs – closed spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings.

If someone at your workplace or school is positive, what you must do depends on whether or not you are a close contact. If you are a close contact then you must quarantine at home for 14 days. If you are not a close contact, then you must wear a mask and avoid the 3 Cs."