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A student spent weeks in quarantine and lockdown as part of an international team that designed an online tool to track potential cases of Covid-19. Gabe Jones, who is studying computer science at the University of Edinburgh, teamed up with Lee McArt...

Public health experts have still to calculate the reproductive rate of Covid-19 on the island, the Minister of Health has said. Kim Wilson was asked by The Royal Gazette if she could share the R0, or R-nought, a value that represents the number of ne...

A staff member at a cancer charity has gone into self-quarantine in the wake of ignoring Covid-19 social-distancing rules for a group photograph on a beach after they were reopened last weekend. Lynne Woolridge, the chief executive of the Bermuda Can...

The public were warned yesterday to wear face masks outside as the number of Covid-19 cases increased. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said three new cases were identified among 195 test results that came back yesterday, bringing the total number...

The biochemist in charge of the main coronavirus screening laboratory said last night the tests used on the island were “very sensitive”. Carika Weldon added the key to a reduction in false results was to get the right sample from patients. Dr Weldon...

Bus and ferry services will not return to the island until proper physical distancing measures are in place on vehicles, the Government said yesterday. A spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism and Transport said that a team was “working to resume publ...

More than 100 new Covid-19 tests revealed no additional cases of the virus, the Ministry of Health said last night. A spokeswoman for the ministry said 104 results were received yesterday, but none were positive. The results mean the number of Covid-...

The laboratory where Bermuda’s first on-island Covid-19 testing was carried out is expected to have its government contract changed. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that the arrangement with Helix Genetic and Scientific Solutions would be “r...

Pharmacies have introduced new safety precautions and regulations for prescriptions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The rules include a maximum of two months’ supply of medicine for chronic conditions and an extension from five days’ emergency ...

The asthma charity of Bermuda was forced to cancel its public demonstration for World Asthma Day today for public safety. But Tracy Nash, the director of asthma education at Open Airways, said that it was still important for people with asthma to tak...