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Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) today announces that a consultation has been launched on a draft Code of Practice (the Code) relating to the Mental Health Act 1968 and subsequent amendments. As allowed by the Act, the Minister of Health has delegated t...

The Minister of Health has warned residents who plan to travel overseas not to use coronavirus tests taken on the island as a way to fulfil the pre-departure test option when they return. Kim Wilson explained yesterday: “With the long weekend coming ...

The cost of Covid-19 pandemic protection has hit close to $6 million up to this month, MPs heard yesterday. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the bulk of the cash, $5.3 million, was spent on personal protective equipment and coronavirus tests. Sh...

One positive coronavirus test was among 633 tests results that came back to the health ministry today. The new case came in on Friday’s Delta flight from the US and was a resident without a pre-departure test. A spokeswoman for the health ministry sa...

The Ministry of Health yesterday defended multiple coronavirus tests on a returned resident. The ministry spoke out after People’s Pharmacy criticised the Government this week after one of its employees underwent a total of six tests before being co...

A total of four coronavirus results said to be pending since the weekend were not positive results, the Government said last night. The Ministry of Health got 588 test results back yesterday and all were clear. A spokeswoman said that Bermuda has had...

Doctors in Bermuda and abroad have warned against anything but essential overseas trips in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Michael Ashton, the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Chief of Medicine, added that residents who stayed on the island could protect...

It was confirmed that seven of 11 coronavirus test results that were pending for several days were not cases of the virus, the Minister of Health said. Kim Wilson added that the remaining four possible cases remained under investigation. The news cam...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Chief of Staff will be its next chief executive and president, it was announced yesterday. Michael Richmond will take over the job from Venetta Symonds as she takes early retirement this month after eight years in the po...

A pharmacy employee whose coronavirus test results were called into question at the weekend has been given the all-clear. The People’s Pharmacy employee had been the subject of social-media rumours that she had breached Covid-19 rules. Yesterday it w...