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More than 5,000 residents have registered for the coronavirus vaccine, the health minister revealed last night. Kim Wilson made the announcement as it was reported that three more people had tested positive for Covid-19 but the number of active cases...

The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute is set to reopen to the public next week after a temporary closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The East Broadway, Pembroke attraction will be open to visitors on Thursdays and Fridays between 10am and...

Bermudians travelling to the UK will need to quarantine on arrival from next Monday, the UK Government announced today. Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, said that the UK will shut all air travel corridors as the country attempted to control...

A total of three new cases of coronavirus have been detected – two classed as on-island transmissions with known contacts. The third was a resident who flew home on the Air Canada flight last Friday from Toronto, and tested positive on the Day 4 test...

Claims that the Covid-19 Vaccination Centre is accepting walk-ins are “absolutely not true”, a Ministry of Health spokeswoman said today. The spokeswoman said that the health ministry was aware of social media posts that claimed the vaccination centr...

Dear Sir, I want to thank the Ministry of Health and all its workers for doing such an excellent job. As a 69-year-old with cancer and a low immune system, I was thrilled to be able to register yesterday for the Covid vaccine. I tried several times ...

A total of five new cases of the coronavirus were reported last night – all among residents returned from the United States. One case arrived last Wednesday on the Delta flight from Atlanta and tested positive on Day 4. The rest tested positive on ar...

The Bermuda Health Council is hold a virtual panel discussion this week on the health of seniors during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ricky Braithwaite, the chief executive of the Bermuda Health Council, and Kieran Walsh, the clinical director of the Britis...

A Covid-19 vaccine registration hotline has been swamped with calls. One man, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday that the hotline was a “disaster” after he had made several unsuccessful attempts to get through. He added: “I must have trie...

The pandemic will eventually end, leaving us more free to ponder what to keep from all the changes it has wrought. One obvious candidate is open-access scientific journals. Most relevant scientific advances on the Covid-19 front have been put online ...

Dear Sir, We are living at a time when misinformation spreads six times faster than the truth online (Vosoughi et al. in Science). The recent riots on the US Capitol are a chilling example of Facebook playing a role in radicalisation — the rioters, m...

A Bermudian doctor who works with Covid-19 patients in the coronavirus-ravaged UK yesterday appealed to island residents to get a vaccination. Stephanie Smith said she was horrified to watch the fear of patients as they died without their loved ones ...