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The Bermuda Hospitals Board suspended all non-emergency surgery yesterday as the health service braces itself for Covid-19. A BHB spokeswoman said the halt will allow time for operating theatre staff to be “upskilled” with extra training in critical-...

This afternoon the care home team of the Ministry of Health held a COVID-19 preparedness meeting at the K. Margaret Carter Centre for all categories of care home staff. At the meeting, co-presenters Ja-Mae Smith, Programme Manager of the Care Home R...

Residents have been urged to inform police of their travel history and any flu symptoms before officers visit their home. Stephen Corbishley, the Commissioner of Police, announced a series of precautionary measures put in place by the Bermuda Police ...

David Burt said this evening that the Government expected to have on-island testing capability for the coronavirus later this week. In a video address to Bermuda, the Premier said: “Covid-19 testing continues to be performed at the Caribbean Public H...

A tent has been set up at an entrance of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital to test the facility’s process for separating patients with possible cases of Covid-19. A Bermuda Hospitals Board spokeswoman said the tented entrance, visible last night ...

Seniors were warned to find ways of distancing themselves, even from loved ones, as the coronavirus pandemic appears to hit elderly patients with health problems worst. Charles Jeffers, the honorary director of Age Concern, said last night that senio...

A Bermudian teenager in central Italy told how he was living in virtual lockdown after authorities introduced severe restrictions to stem the spread of a killer strain of coronavirus. Leo Harris, who lives in Florence and works at a restaurant, expla...

New legislation empowering the Government to force arriving passengers to self-quarantine will be fast-tracked in the House of Assembly this morning. As Bermuda braced for the coronavirus pandemic, supermarket heads last night advised customers to sh...

Residents must change the way they live in the face of a potential killer strain of coronavirus, the Opposition leader said this afternoon. Craig Cannonier, of the One Bermuda Alliance, asked people to work together but claimed that “more direction” ...

Rumours that suggested the island had confirmed cases of Covid-19 are false, the Ministry of Health said today. Kim Wilson, the health minister, urged members of the public to rely only on official sources of information to stop “damaging” hearsay fr...