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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...

The head of a private school and its chairwoman last night appealed for a relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions for children and warned that the education system was close to breaking point. Linda Parker, the head teacher at BHS, and Celia Powell, the ...

The go-ahead for people to get a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was given last night. The fourth dose booster shot is to be targeted at the vulnerable, including people aged over 65, rest home residents and anyone with suppressed immune systems....

The number of Covid-19 cases jumped to 312 yesterday, an increase of 41 or 15 per cent since last Thursday

The protection of children is a fundamental tenet of civilised society. To protect a child is innate in every adult, regardless of being a parent or not. In early 2020, we witnessed the horrific images of overwhelmed hospitals, spiralling deaths as C...

The former science adviser to the Government has accused the health minister of defaming her at a Covid-19 briefing. Kim Wilson said at the regular Thursday update that Carika Weldon, who resigned on the last day of 2021 from the Molecular Diagnostic...

Health officials insisted last night they were confident that the government lab on the front line of the battle against Covid-19 could cope with a flood of tests if another major outbreak happened. Ayo Oyinloye, the Chief Medical Officer, said the M...

The scientist who spearheaded the island’s battle against Covid-19 yesterday denied a government claim that up to 60 people had worked at her lab. Carika Weldon, the former director of the Medical Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, known as MDL, was...

A pressure group is to sue the Government for damages over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Eugene Dean, of the Collective Action Solidarity Trust, said the group planned to launch a representative claim — a form of class action lawsuit — throu...

Another Covid-19 death has occurred, bringing the pandemic’s death toll to 125. Active cases have risen to 257 from 224

A new company set up to sell antigen tests at what was said to be a cut rate has launched a giveaway scheme to help the less fortunate. Lateral Flow Bermuda, founded by Jonathan Makanjuola, a consultant urologist, and Craig Brown, the managing direct...