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A legal challenge to mandatory Covid-19 testing for school pupils before they can return to the classroom has suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court. The case for the parent, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was brought last month against a dec...

A World Health Organisation representative yesterday hailed the island’s Covid-19 vaccine rate as he called on residents to make sure all of their shots were up to date. Ian Stein, the WHO and Pan American Health Organisation delegate for Bermuda, Ja...

More than 2,500 people have now signed an online petition calling on the Government to drop the Travel Authorisation Form. The TAF, introduced in June 2020 and expected to continue until March 2023, has been denounced by the Opposition as a “stealth ...

More than 50 hospital staff were off work this weekend after testing positive for Covid-19 or coming into close contact with positive cases. A Bermuda Hospitals Board said 53 people were affected out of 1,800 staff, adding: “Most positive staff cases...

Delays to travel authorisation approvals are usually because people submitted their forms too late, a government spokeswoman said. She added that many recent travellers filled out applications in the evening before their planned departure for Bermuda...

The future of a private transport service that provided a chauffeur to get people home safe after a night out remains uncertain. HomeSafe Bermuda suspended operations for health and safety reasons in March 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic began to imp...

Bermuda’s active cases of Covid-19 have climbed sharply in the past week to 293, health officials reported last night. There are now nine people in hospital, but none are being treated in intensive care. No deaths were recorded this week. The update ...

When the 1918 influenza pandemic swept the globe, American and European epidemiologists reeled. They hadn’t predicted the devastation. The data was shaky, but something like 50 million people died worldwide, an incomprehensible number even for a peri...

Bermudian-headquartered Altamira Therapeutics Ltd has reached the midpoint for enrolment in its Covamid clinical investigation of its Bentrio™ nasal spray in patients with acute Covid-19. Covamid is a randomised, placebo controlled clinical trial to ...

A lab worker with the Department of Health was declared the winner of the Public Health Professional Award for her work in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sakina Usher, a clinical laboratory supervisor, was credited for working behind the scenes ...

Dear Sir, I was pleased to see another call in today’s Royal Gazette (April 11, 2022) for the end of the Travel Authorisation requirement. Do we think the Government is listening? Last June, my husband and I were unfortunate enough to be among the...