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A tent has been set up at an entrance of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to test the facility’s process for separating patients with possible cases of Covid-19. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said the tented entrance, visible last night ...

Seniors were warned to find ways of distancing themselves, even from loved ones, as the coronavirus pandemic appears to hit elderly patients with health problems worst. Charles Jeffers, the honorary director of Age Concern, said last night that senio...

New legislation empowering the Government to force arriving passengers to self-quarantine will be fast-tracked in the House of Assembly this morning. As Bermuda braced for the coronavirus pandemic, supermarket heads last night advised customers to sh...

Physicians, nurses and laboratory staff got a refresher on the use of personal protective equipment and infection prevention and control on Saturday, according to a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health. The training was given by infection preventio...

The zoo section at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo is to be closed to the public from today through April 30. Ian Walker, the principal curator at BAMZ, said the measure had been taken for “the safety of the animals, members of the public who vi...

Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, issued a statement this afternoon noting that the World Health Organisation announced over the weekend that the global number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has surpassed 100,000. The illness is caused by the coro...

Bermuda has a shortage of face masks as it continues to guard against the killer strain of coronavirus. Health minister Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly today that talks are under way with the government agency Public Health England to import mo...

There have been 25 travellers to Bermuda pre-screened for Covid-19, the illness caused by a novel coronavirus strain spreading around the world — with all persons passing the 14-day monitoring period. The Ministry of Health, in a statement this after...

A review team to assess proposals for tackling chronic disease in Bermuda is being sought by the Bermuda Health Council. The BHeC announced last year that $2 million was available to fund brainstorming on tackling Bermuda’s high costs of non-communic...

A cruise ship due to dock in Bermuda after it was at the centre of a scare over a deadly strain of coronavirus is no more a threat than any other vessel, the health minister said yesterday. Kim Wilson said that no passengers or crew on the New Jersey...