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Two residents and two members of staff at a care home have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. Health minister Kim Wilson announced the news about the Matilda Smith Williams Seniors Residence yesterday. Ms Wilson revealed the total ...

The “first portion” of supplies to perform 40,000 Covid-19 tests have arrived in Bermuda, the Premier confirmed. David Burt added that stocks already on the island were sufficient to keep up with the existing need. His comments came at the same time ...

Bermuda Hospitals Board today announces the addition of 9 more negative pressure rooms at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. Four additional rooms in the Emergency Department, 2 operating rooms, 2 rooms on the Post Anesthesia Care Unit and 1 addition...

Care home staff will be banned from working at multiple sites under amendments planned by the Ministry of Health. Health minister Kim Wilson announced the move yesterday to try to cut the risk of Covid-19. She was speaking after The Royal Gazette rep...

A rest home resident with Covid-19 was in critical condition in hospital last night. The senior, 66, deteriorated after he developed a fever and cough at the Matilda Smith Williams nursing home in Devonshire on Sunday. The man was admitted to the Kin...

The Government has the capacity to carry out more than 200 Covid-19 tests a day at two up-and-running labs, it was announced at the weekend. David Burt, the Premier, said the Helix Laboratory, run by Desiree Spriggs, and the Bermuda Government Molecu...

Dozens of homeless people in an emergency shelter at a secondary school were out on the streets yesterday after they were ordered to leave during daytime hours. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said last night that the temporary shelt...

A list of numbers including WhatsApp contact details was released yesterday so people can get help with applications for the Government’s unemployment benefits scheme. Lovitta Foggo, the labour minister, said: “We want this process to be as seamless ...

A personal trainer who runs fitness classes for seniors has moved her workouts online in the wake of Covid-19 state-of-emergency, shelter-in-place regulations. Frances Smith, the director of Actively Aging has started to record weekly videos of her c...

Most women due to give birth in hospital will still be able to have their partners at their side when they are in labour despite the Covid-19 crisis, it was revealed yesterday. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said last night that — as long as fathers or ...