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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...

A “systemic breakdown” in the healthcare system that allowed some people to slip through the cracks has to be tackled, activists said yesterday. Friends of Milton Ming – a Bermudian chef who died days after he was flown overseas for treatment – s...

Travellers en route to the US will be able to get coronavirus tests at doctors’ and dental surgeries, it was revealed today. The Bermuda Health Council said options for people to obtain fit-to-fly certificates would be expanded after an “unprecedente...

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...

A major crowdfunding website has rejected a bid by campaigners opposed to the Government’s Covid-19 vaccination programme to use it to raise cash. The Bermuda Freedom Alliance linked up with the GoFundMe platform last year to raise cash to record int...

Close contacts of people who test positive for the coronavirus no longer need to quarantine as long as they have been fully vaccinated within six months and are showing no symptoms, the Government said last night. The change, announced last week, was...

A petition backing the Government’s science adviser attracted hundreds of new signatures over the weekend in the wake of her resignation. More than 8,000 people had shown their support for Carika Weldon on Change.org by yesterday afternoon. The petit...

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...

Quarantine periods are to be cut from next week, the health minister revealed yesterday. Kim Wilson added that schoolchildren would also switch from PCR tests to the antigen type. Ms Wilson insisted that the changes to quarantine requirements would h...

A new record for Covid-19 numbers was revealed last night as cases shot up to 1,882. The total surpassed the 1,612 peak of cases logged on September 21 last year – the height of Bermuda’s fourth wave. A total of 661 new infections were recorded from ...