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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...

Bermuda’s Covid-19 death toll rose by two this week as the number of active cases fell. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said last night she was saddened by the two latest deaths, which brought the number of Covid-19-related deaths in Bermuda to 1...

Dear Sir, This refrain or some variant of it is repeated ad nauseam by journalists, commentators and politicians — “Burt, Wilson, et al, did well/were successful at the start of the pandemic". It seems like one of those things that hopes to become tr...

A senior doctor appealed to people yesterday to keep wearing masks to protect themselves and others against Covid-19 – after the Government relaxed public health rules. Wesley Miller, the Chief of Staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, was speaking af...

The One Bermuda Alliance yesterday called on the Government to end the “stealth tax” travel authorisation forms. It came as the Government said it was working to try and clear a backlog of Travel Authorisation applications caused by problems with e-m...

A man who faked Covid-19 test results to avoid attendance at the Drug Treatment Court has been jailed for four months

Dear Sir, The Bermuda Travel Authorisation Form has to stop. Having just returned from a trip abroad and having to figure out and complete the Travel Authorisation Form, I cannot see why any visitor would want to go thought that process to come here....