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The island now has 21 active cases of Covid-19, it was revealed tonight. None are in hospital or under investigation. But Kim Wilson, the health minister, said two students and the parents of one student have been “recently identified as contacts of ...

Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) today announces that a consultation has been launched on a draft Code of Practice (the Code) relating to the Mental Health Act 1968 and subsequent amendments. As allowed by the Act, the Minister of Health has delegated t...

A strain of the H1N1 virus capable of infecting humans does not pose an immediate threat to Bermuda, the Ministry of Health said yesterday. The Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences published a scientific study on Monday that showed a strain...

Legislation designed to introduce measures such as a curfew in the interest of public health was passed by MPs yesterday. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said that the Public Health Amendment (No. 2) Act 2020 would mean regulations that “provided...

Bermuda has recorded its first Covid-19 case since the start of the month. The Ministry of Health said the positive test was among 145 results that came back yesterday. The island has now recorded a total of 142 cases. A total of six are active, inc...

Public health experts have still to calculate the reproductive rate of Covid-19 on the island, the Minister of Health has said. Kim Wilson was asked by The Royal Gazette if she could share the R0, or R-nought, a value that represents the number of ne...

Care home staff will be banned from working at multiple sites under amendments planned by the Ministry of Health. Health minister Kim Wilson announced the move yesterday to try to cut the risk of Covid-19. She was speaking after The Royal Gazette rep...

Bermuda’s first two cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed at about 4pm yesterday, it was revealed last night. David Burt, the Premier, said one of the two residents had travelled from Britain and the other from the United States and the cases were unconne...

Bermuda has a shortage of face masks as it continues to guard against the killer strain of coronavirus. Health minister Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly today that talks are under way with the government agency Public Health England to import mo...

The Minister of Health looks forward to engaging with the Patients First group to consider its proposed solutions towards universal health coverage. Bermuda’s adoption of this World Health Organisation goal is vital for the country to achieve equita...

No cases of the coronavirus have been reported in Bermuda, the Minister of Health confirmed this morning. Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly the Ministry’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit is in regular conversation with international bodies and...

The Ministry of Health has called on the public to help develop the Bermuda Health Strategy 2020-2025 through an online survey. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said the survey would help the Government build its strategy for the next five years. ...