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The biochemist in charge of the main coronavirus screening laboratory said last night the tests used on the island were “very sensitive”. Carika Weldon added the key to a reduction in false results was to get the right sample from patients. Dr Weldon...

A police officer swapped his patrol car for a paintbrush to help a woman whose home was targeted by vandals over the shelter-in-place regulations. Anthony Bartley, a parish constable, stepped in after graffiti was scrawled on the wall of a house in P...

No new Covid-19 cases or deaths were reported today, the health ministry said tonight. A spokeswoman for the ministry said 150 tests results had come back and all were clear. Bermuda’s total number of Covid-19 cases remained at 118 and the death toll...

Bus and ferry services will not return to the island until proper physical distancing measures are in place on vehicles, the Government said yesterday. A spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism and Transport said that a team was “working to resume publ...

Bermuda post offices restarted counter service this week — but with Covid-19 safety restrictions. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, said counter services relaunched at all post offices on Tuesday except the Perot Post Office on Hami...

Another 16 cruise ship visits to Bermuda have been cancelled by Carnival Corporation. It means that one third of planned cruise ship visits to the island by all operators this year have now been called off. Carnival, which operates Carnival Cruise Li...

Bermuda is ideally placed to come to the fore in a new and better era for the reinsurance industry when the Covid-19 pandemic is over. Its track record for innovation and reinvention within the industry is among the reasons Ryan Mather has optimism t...

More than 100 new Covid-19 tests revealed no additional cases of the virus, the Ministry of Health said last night. A spokeswoman for the ministry said 104 results were received yesterday, but none were positive. The results mean the number of Covid-...

With news on Saturday of a seventh fatality resulting from the coronavirus, Bermuda received a tragic and swift reminder that just because the lockdown was relaxed on the same day, the crisis is far from over. And the menace of this silent killer wa...

The Covid-19 crisis has driven a surge in need seen by the substance abuse charity Focus Counselling Services. Demand for daily meals has soared by 50 per cent since the pandemic hit Bermuda, according to executive director Leslie Grant. The group, ...

Bermuda’s tourism industry has already been dealt a $95 million blow by Covid-19. Figures released by the Bermuda Tourism Authority yesterday show visitor air arrivals fell by 38 per cent in the first quarter while cruise ship arrivals plummeted by 4...

The laboratory where Bermuda’s first on-island Covid-19 testing was carried out is expected to have its government contract changed. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that the arrangement with Helix Genetic and Scientific Solutions would be “r...