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Hospital patients could be asked to recuperate at home to avoid bed blocking as medics braced themselves for an influx of patients, a senior doctor said yesterday. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, warned that he expec...

Public school pupils will be able to return to the classroom after taking a coronavirus antigen test at home instead of a PCR test. Tinée Furbert, the Acting Minister of Education, said the change will be phased in from next week. Antigen tests have ...

Some pupils at Bermuda High School were learning online this week after pupils tested positive for the coronavirus. Linda Parker, the head of school, said that staff had done everything it could to keep as many pupils in classrooms as possible. But s...

The Government yesterday denied it lost its grip on the coronavirus crisis after long delays in the test system left most schools closed on the first day of term and caused “chaotic” scenes at the airport. Kim Wilson, the health minister, defended th...

JetBlue’s decision to downgrade its service to Bermuda came as no surprise, two air industry executives said yesterday. Aaron Adderley, the president of airport operators Skyport, also highlighted the island’s strict travel restrictions to combat Cov...

A traditional charity walk has donated 240 laptops to primary school pupils. The Bermuda End-to-End Charitable Trust announced this week it had handed over the Chromebooks and protective cases to the Ministry of Education. Anne Mello, the chairwoman ...

A Supreme Court murder trial ground to a halt this week after the coronavirus forced a juror to quarantine. Taaj Muhammad, 26, pleaded not guilty to the December 30, 2018 murder of Ronniko Burchall, who was 30. Mr Muhammad, from St George's, also ple...

A clinic has run out of PCR tests because of a breakdown in the supply chain. The Northshore Medical and Aesthetics Centre said that it could still perform antigen tests but that PCR tests had been stopped until fresh test kits were available. A spok...

Another shipment of Covid-19 vaccines arrived on the island on Wednesday night, Government House has announced. Government House confirmed in a Facebook post that 14,040 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived on last night’s British Airways fli...

Quarantine and test rules will be loosened next week, the health minister announced today. Kim Wilson also signalled changes to test requirements for schoolchildren, with a switch from PCR testing requirements to antigen testing. Ms Wilson said the q...