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Four people have died this weekend from Covid-19, bringing the death toll from coronavirus to 42, while the number of active cases of the virus has soared to 1,427. Outbreaks of the virus have also been reported in “several” long-term care homes, aff...

Vaccination clinics to protect dogs against an outbreak of canine parvovirus have been called off by the Bermuda Veterinary Association because of a surge in Covid-19 cases. Laura Tucker, the president of the BVA, said the heightened risk meant the c...

Another Covid-19 death was announced last night as the number of active infections increased to 1,238. The grim news meant that the death toll now stands at 38, with 51 people in hospital, 13 of them in intensive care. The island recorded another 191...

Increases in government health insurance premiums will not mean automatic jumps in rates for private insurance, experts have said. Michelle Jackson, the executive vice-president of insurance giant BF&M’s life and health department, said the company h...

Booster shots for the vaccine against Covid-19 are “number one on the list” for the Government’s immunisation committee. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the committee would meet this week to discuss “how it will be distributed and when”. She no...

People who flout public health regulations are appearing before the courts, the health minister said last night. Kim Wilson announced that, since June, six case files have been prepared for police and the Department of Public Prosecutions. “There are...

The island recorded another death from Covid-19 last night as the number of active cases surged to a new high of 948. The death brought the death toll to 36 since the pandemic hit in March last year and the number of infections is 44 higher than the ...

Increases are planned for mandatory health insurance premiums in line with “current market realities”, legislators heard yesterday in the House of Assembly. The higher rates will support extra prescription drug benefits and a health programme for uni...

Bermuda’s Covid-19 have shot to more than 500, quadrupling in weeks with more than 20 people now in hospital and five in intensive care. David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly the island’s unvaccinated were bearing the brunt of the new s...

A fresh outbreak of Covid-19 is being driven in part by “people going to work with actual symptoms”, the health minister said yesterday afternoon as she “reluctantly” conceded the island was seeing its fourth wave of infections from the virus. “This ...