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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...

A psychologist last night warned that the stress of the Covid-19 lockdown could take its toll on people under virtual house arrest. Alison Daniels said people could fall prey to anxiety, sadness and feel unable to relax while the shelter-in-place reg...

More than $1 million has been pledged to an emergency fund set up to help people get through the Covid-19 crisis, it was revealed yesterday. The appeal was launched to help support charities and their work to provide essential services to people in n...

A resident and two staff at a seniors’ home have come down with Covid-19, the Government announced tonight. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said that all residents and staff at Westmeath Residential and Nursing Care Home in Pembroke were to...

More than 900 tests a day for Covid-19 could be carried out now that two laboratories are up and running, it was revealed last night. A government spokeswoman said that the labs had the immediate ability to do 200 tests every day — and the number wou...