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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 ...

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...