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Essential workers were checked for Covid-19 yesterday after a drive-through test centre was launched. However, David Burt, the Premier, said that sample collection at the multi-lane site in St David’s started late after some teething troubles. He exp...

More than 3,000 people could be hospitalised as a result of Covid-19, with 981 of them requiring critical care, a worst-case scenario released by the Bermuda Government warned yesterday. The figure of 3,096 would equate to a peak of 78 hospital admis...

No new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed yesterday, the Government said last night. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health reported that 61 test results had come back and all were clear. The total number of cases remains at 99, with five deaths. Th...

The scale of testing for Covid-19 was higher yesterday in Bermuda than any Caribbean country, according to data published online. Figures on the Worldometer website showed that the island ranked above Aruba and the Cayman Islands when comparing the n...

A Covid-19 case at a seniors home this month did not mandate testing of all residents and staff, Bermuda’s Chief Medical Officer insisted last night. Cheryl Peek-Ball said that a Covid-19 case had been confirmed at the Westmeath Residential and Nurs...

A dozen new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed last night. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said that 222 test results had come back yesterday, with 12 positive and 210 clear. The new victims brought the total number of cases up to 98, with 3...

Teams from the Bermuda Hospitals Board and the Department of Health joined forces to spot possible risks of Covid-19 exposure in BHB staff who also worked at a care home that suffered an outbreak of the disease. A BHB spokeswoman said that staff were...

Public health officials tackled problems with Covid-19 testing materials by making their own, it was revealed yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said that staff at Government laboratories produced a viral transport medium — a way to ...

A nurse at Bermuda’s largest residential home for seniors tested positive for Covid-19 almost two weeks ago but a plea for everyone else at the facility to be immediately screened for the coronavirus was not acted on. Barbara Lee, the chairwoman of t...

Expertise and supplies from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences are helping the island to battle Covid-19. Rachel Parsons Biggs, a BIOS microbiologist, was seconded to Helix Bermuda, the forensics and clinical testing company where testing for th...