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Bermuda is “one of the safest destinations on the planet” in the Covid-19 pandemic, the new United States Consul General said yesterday. Lee Rizzuto, who took up the post last month, said the island’s test regime for the novel coronavirus was “effect...

A permanent Covid-19 testing site for travellers opened in Hamilton yesterday at the Perot Post Office on Queen Street. The announcement by Kim Wilson, the health minister, came as 734 new test results for coronavirus came back clear. Ms Wilson thank...

The cost of Covid-19 pandemic protection has hit close to $6 million up to this month, MPs heard yesterday. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the bulk of the cash, $5.3 million, was spent on personal protective equipment and coronavirus tests. Sh...

The public health response team at the health ministry was thanked yesterday by the Head of the Public Service for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Derrick Binns said the past five months had been “some of the most difficult and challenging tha...

MPs have approved an extension to the island’s Covid-19 regulations until September 27. The legislation included a $25,000 fine and/or six months’ imprisonment for a breach of the requirement for travellers to quarantine as they waited for the result...

The island recorded one case of Covid-19 yesterday, which came in the day before on an Air Canada flight. The case was among 393 test results that came back to the Ministry of Health yesterday. The rest were clear. Bermuda has now logged 150 confirme...

Bermuda’s run of negative Covid-19 tests continued yesterday after 317 that came back by the Ministry of Health were all clear. The island has had 146 total confirmed cases. The number of people who have died is nine and all 137 others have recovered...

Tracking bracelets used to monitor people quarantined because they contracted Covid-19 are the same type used in Hong Kong, the Premier has revealed. David Burt explained how the trackers worked at Thursday’s coronavirus briefing — and said he had to...

Blu Bar and Grill issued an apology for a lapse in social distancing filmed at a Friday night fundraiser. Blu, at Belmont Drive in Warwick, said it would close for two days to train staff in guidelines for protection against the Covid-19 pandemic. It...

The Premier dismissed “malicious messages” on social media last night that criticised the island’s Covid-19 test laboratories. David Burt defended the abilities of Carika Weldon, a Bermudian biochemist and researcher at the Oxford Genomics Centre, pa...