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Travellers who arrived in Bermuda on the same flight as a sick passenger who was later tested for the coronavirus got no health advice after landing, it was claimed yesterday. The man coughed and sneezed during the American Airlines flight from Miami...

Private schools are assessing spring holiday travel risks from a potential killer strain of coronavirus. Somersfield Academy said in a letter sent to parents that it was “closely monitoring the current Covid-19 situation carefully”. The school added...

International companies in Bermuda are continuing to scale back business travel for employees in the wake of the global coronavirus outbreak, The Royal Gazette understands. Some companies have axed overseas trips for staff until further notice, while...

Quarantine centres are under consideration as the country prepares itself for a worst-case scenario over the potential killer Covid-19 virus, it was revealed yesterday. Cheryl Peek-Ball, the Chief Medical Officer, said there were “conceivable situati...

As a hand sanitiser shortage sweeps the island due to Covid-19 fears, a promise by Government to source the product has puzzled at least one distributor. “I don’t know where the Government is going to get it from,” said the distributor, who did not ...

Extra supplies of hand sanitiser are to be imported and handed out free of charge, the Government said last night. The move came as the island braced itself for the possible arrival of the potential killer coronavirus strain Covid-19. Kim Wilson, the...

I extended my hand to the woman with whom I’d been chatting for the past few minutes. “I’m Virginia,” I said. To my surprise, she responded not with a handshake, but with a closed fist. A white woman of a certain age, she was incongruously going for ...

The Bermuda Diabetes Association is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the exclusive rights as the sole distributor in Bermuda of the Abbott Freestyle Libre blood glucose monitoring system. Traditional blood glucose monitoring that involves...

Bermudian businesses have imposed travel restrictions as the worldwide spread of a killer strain of coronavirus continued. A spokesman for HSBC said the bank had “restricted travel to a number of destinations until further notice” as the death toll f...

The new lead volunteer of a group fighting children’s cancer has vowed to raise $150,000 this year for life-saving research. Cheyra Bell, who has taken over as the volunteer chairwoman of the Bermuda event organising committee at St Baldrick’s and wh...

The Covid-19 virus has not yet appeared in Bermuda — but it has already disrupted travel plans. Newlyweds Erica Morandi and Gregory Beek said they had to cancel their honeymoon twice because of the spread of the virus. Italian-born Ms Morandi and Mr ...

Pandemics come and pandemics go. In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling. Over the coming months, it’s likely that a significant share of the world’s population will exper...