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MPs have approved an extension to the island’s Covid-19 regulations until September 27. The legislation included a $25,000 fine and/or six months’ imprisonment for a breach of the requirement for travellers to quarantine as they waited for the result...

Another positive case of Covid-19 has been recorded by the Ministry of Health. The Ministry said this evening that out of 1,165 test results received on Friday and Saturday, the only positive case was imported on the Delta flight 656 from Atlanta on ...

People received their Covid-19 results late because of a problem with an external mail server. The Ministry of Health added that the daily results breakdown from yesterday would be released to the media today, a day later than normal. A spokeswoman s...

Bermuda’s Covid-19 curfew will be lifted on Monday, the head of the sub-committee responsible for reopening the Bermuda economy said last night. It was also revealed at the regular coronavirus briefing that two new cases of the disease had been repo...

A scheme to help tackle chronic diseases has awarded almost $1 million in grants, the Bermuda Health Council announced today. The Chronic Disease Innovation Programme approved nine grants that totalled $922,080 and a planning grant of $37,500 between...

Venetta Symonds started full-time work for the Bermuda Hospitals Board 40 years ago today as one of the first black radiographers at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Her ambition back then was not to become chief executive officer of the entire...

Bermuda’s acute care hospital is “well positioned” for a second wave of Covid-19, its outgoing chief executive has said. Venetta Symonds, who will retire from the Bermuda Hospitals Board on July 31, added that the organisation’s 1,800 employees had p...

A woman in United States for surgery after she was flown out by air ambulance has revealed the problems faced by residents trying to get screened for the coronavirus before they returned to the island. Ginny Masters said it was almost impossible to b...

The buy-up of two medical practices by an insurance firm has been branded a “huge conflict” by the chairman of a healthcare pressure group. Mark Selley, the chairman of the Bermuda Healthcare Advisory Group, said that little information had been made...

A virtual therapy programme for young people set up in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis could become a permanent fixture, its creators have said. Solstice, a psychological and psychiatric treatment centre, developed the Zoom-based Connect Virtual prog...