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A bar and restaurant in Hamilton has shut up shop on a temporary basis because of a positive Covid-19 test, it was revealed last night. A message from Front Street’s Pickled Onion said: “Due to a positive Covid result from an internal SafeKey testing...

The increase in Covid-cases has forced a bank to make changes to its teller operations. A spokesman for Clarien Bank said: “As a result of the current Covid outbreak and out of an abundance of caution for both our employees and clients, Clarien has m...

Another 192 coronavirus cases were logged yesterday, pushing the total number of active infections to 613. The number of patients in hospital went up to 28 – an increase of 18 since Tuesday – with five people in intensive care. That is the highest n...

Police and health officials will join forces this weekend in a crackdown on breaches of Covid-19 regulations. A Government spokeswoman said that events with large group exemptions should expect to be visited to ensure they have stuck to the rules. Sh...

Increases are planned for mandatory health insurance premiums in line with “current market realities”, legislators heard yesterday in the House of Assembly. The higher rates will support extra prescription drug benefits and a health programme for uni...

Bermuda’s Covid-19 have shot to more than 500, quadrupling in weeks with more than 20 people now in hospital and five in intensive care. David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly the island’s unvaccinated were bearing the brunt of the new s...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has accused Government of poor planning after it closed schools at short notice. Public school pupils were due to go back to the classroom today for the start of the new academic year. But on Tuesday Diallo Rabain,...

A fresh outbreak of Covid-19 is being driven in part by “people going to work with actual symptoms”, the health minister said yesterday afternoon as she “reluctantly” conceded the island was seeing its fourth wave of infections from the virus. “This ...

Doctors revealed last night that a second “satellite” intensive care unit had been opened at the hospital in preparation for a likely surge in Covid-19 cases. Michael Richmond, the chief executive of the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said he was “confiden...

A surge in test demand has put staff in the lab leading the fight against Covid-19 under increased pressure. Carika Weldon, who heads Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in the East End, said on Twitter that staff had worked long hours – and some had al...