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A more contagious version of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 was detected on the island last month. But medics said they did not expect an increase in hospitalisations because the symptoms of the new strain – BA.2 or “stealth Omicron” – were similar ...

Covid-19 has claimed another life, it was announced last night. The news brought the death toll from the pandemic up to 129. Health officials added that Caribbean Public Health Agency tests had shown the presence of the Omicron BA. 2 variant among t...

Supreme Court services hit by the Covid-19 pandemic are getting back to normal, officials said today. Office hours were cut in January after the court system suffered “extreme staff shortages”. But a court circular revealed that the Supreme Court and...

Bermuda has recorded another Covid-19 death, health officials revealed yesterday. The news brought the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic to 128. But Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the number of active cases continued to fall. The island...

Coronavirus vaccinations will continue even after a Hamilton clinic shuts tomorrow, the health minister said. Kim Wilson said the vaccination centre would be available at several other sites, including the former Crisson’s jewellery store on Front St...

No record was kept of how many schooldays children in the public education system have missed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Department of Education admitted that it did not hold the statistics after a pub...

A pressure group looking at a law suit against the Government over allegations of mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic yesterday claimed many were afraid to speak out against the restrictions. Eugene Dean of the Collective Action Solidarity Trust s...

A parent has challenged the education minister over the need for schoolchildren to be tested for Covid-19 before they can be taught in a classroom. Peter Sanderson, the lawyer for the man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told the Supreme ...

A former science adviser to the Government said she was “drained” from tension that arose during planning for the return of public schools after Christmas. Carika Weldon told Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, that she wanted to speak on behal...

Bermuda’s Covid-19 numbers continued to fall last night with a drop of 36 to 241 from the 277 active cases recorded last Thursday. There were ten people in hospital, one of them in intensive care. The island’s death toll from Covid-19 rose to 127 at ...

An official suffered verbal abuse from some parents when children were being screened to attend schools, a testing coordinator told senior civil servants. Tarik Bean-Darrell urged the Department of Education to address the problem when it emerged las...

The island logged another Covid-19 death last night, which pushed the pandemic death toll to 127. But the number of active cases has dropped for the first time in several weeks. There were 123 new cases recorded since Monday’s update and 157 recoveri...