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A steroid used to treat asthmatics may have protected them from infection by the coronavirus, a member of an health group said yesterday. Tracy Nash, the director of education at asthma charity Open Airways, said that asthmatics were not as badly aff...

Taxi drivers should get the Covid-19 jab because of the high-risk nature of the job, the head of the industry’s trade association said yesterday. David Frost, the president of the Bermuda Taxi Operators Association, added that a high number of driver...

The weekly Covid-19 press conference scheduled for 5.30pm today has been postponed until Thursday. A government spokeswoman said the postponement would enable David Burt, the Premier, and Kim Wilson, the health minister, time to give an update on “r...

Join The Royal Gazette’s live video partner the Washington Post today at 1pm on www.royalgazette.com for a special programme on diabetes - one of the most common chronic diseases in the US and Bermuda. Diabetes is a public health emergency that has...

The island’s death toll from Covid-19 has reached 30, the health minister announced last night. Kim Wilson offered her condolences to the family of the victim as the island marked the second death from the disease inside three days. The news was anno...

Prison officials have stonewalled questions on claims that a Westgate inmate has been in isolation for a month after he refused to take a coronavirus PCR nasal test on medical grounds. The inmate’s mother claimed the man could have been exposed to C...

An order for unvaccinated travellers to quarantine from next month was defended by David Burt, the Premier, after the threat of a legal challenge was raised last week. Mr Burt emphasised full details would be given on Thursday, four weeks ahead of th...

Bermuda recorded another Covid-19 related death on Saturday, bringing the island’s number of fatalities from the disease to 29. Kim Wilson, the minister of health, confirmed the death in a brief statement on Saturday. Ms Wilson said: “I am deeply sad...

A mobile vaccination centre at the Transport Control Department in Pembroke delivered the coronavirus vaccine to 189 people who got their first dose today. They attended TCD on North Street between 10am and 2pm, where David Burt, the Premier, paid a ...

Scores of people today took part in a rally against Government’s promotion of Covid-19 vaccinations. Just under 200 cars and about 20 bikes drove around the island, tooting their horns and waving at passers-by. At one stage cars came to a standstill...