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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...

Hospital patients could be asked to recuperate at home to avoid bed blocking as medics braced themselves for an influx of patients, a senior doctor said yesterday. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, warned that he expec...

The Government yesterday denied it lost its grip on the coronavirus crisis after long delays in the test system left most schools closed on the first day of term and caused “chaotic” scenes at the airport. Kim Wilson, the health minister, defended th...

A clinic has run out of PCR tests because of a breakdown in the supply chain. The Northshore Medical and Aesthetics Centre said that it could still perform antigen tests but that PCR tests had been stopped until fresh test kits were available. A spok...

Another shipment of Covid-19 vaccines arrived on the island on Wednesday night, Government House has announced. Government House confirmed in a Facebook post that 14,040 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived on last night’s British Airways fli...

Quarantine and test rules will be loosened next week, the health minister announced today. Kim Wilson also signalled changes to test requirements for schoolchildren, with a switch from PCR testing requirements to antigen testing. Ms Wilson said the q...

Almost 150 hospital staff are off work due to Covid-19 — with pressure on services mounting as the number of Omicron cases continues to surge. The announcement came after the Bermuda Police Service announced that 48 of its 400-strong force were absen...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance is urging the Government not to renew public safety restrictions when they expire next week. Michael Dunkley, the Shadow Minister of Health, also said that SafeKey and travel authorisation forms should be abolished...

A bar and restaurant in a prime location has been forced to cut back its lunchtime opening hours after the coronavirus slashed customer numbers. Bermuda Bistro at the Beach, on Front Street, Hamilton, will open from 3pm between Monday and Thursday, a...

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’...