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Children have been sent to school without parents waiting for clear coronavirus test results and some have later been found to be infected, health officials said last night. Kim Wilson, the health minister, warned parents that children should not ret...

Two deaths from Covid-19 were reported last night – which pushed the death toll from the coronavirus up to 112. Officials added that there were 14 patients in hospital – two of them in intensive care. The last deaths attributed to the coronavirus wer...

Covid-19 curfew restrictions ended today at 5am, the Ministry of Health said last night. But other rules designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus will remain in force for two more weeks from Friday. They include keeping maximum group sizes to ...

Active cases of Covid-19 have continued to climb, up to 1,953 from the 1,882 announced five days ago. There are now 13 people in hospital with the coronavirus, two of them in intensive care, as well as a new record for active infections. There were t...

Children aged 12 and up are now eligible for booster shots against Covid-19, the Government announced last night. Kim Wilson, the health minister, revealed the booster jab could go to children who received their second dose of the vaccine six month a...

The Premier has praised the Government’s science adviser Carika Weldon after a minister downplayed the impact of her resignation – which sparked public criticism that her work had been “minimised”. David Burt, who was off the island at a cryptocurren...

The loss of the Government’s science adviser and head of its Covid-19 test lab in just 18 days’ time will have no effect on the lab’s performance, the health minister declared yesterday. Kim Wilson said the resignation of Carika Weldon, the executive...

The island’s active cases of Covid-19 have climbed to 1,604 — the second highest level recorded since the pandemic hit the island almost two years ago. There were 689 positive cases from 7,125 tests carried out from last Tuesday to Thursday. Tuesday’...

Phone software may have cut cases of Covid-19 by as much as 20 per cent during the island’s worst outbreak, the company that created the programme has said. WeHealth, a US-based firm, said that the app, now being used by about 25 per cent of resident...

A scientist sounded the alarm four times last week that the coronavirus test system was about to be overwhelmed by the latest outbreak — but was ignored by Government officials. Carika Weldon, the director of the Molecular Diagnostic and Research Lab...