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Health officials last night defended masks for schoolchildren and the continued use of the SafeKey system for bars and restaurants, even though the Cabinet continued to discuss changing coronavirus restrictions. Kim Wilson, the health minister, and A...

Dear Sir, The negative narrative surrounding schools and Covid-19 must change. The Royal Gazette has been complicit in this throughout the pandemic, sensationalising school cases or closures, advocating for Covid “measures” that involve children, and...

The death toll from the coronavirus rose to 114 last night after health officials announced two more deaths. There are now 16 infected people in hospital, with three of them in intensive care. The latest test figures showed 496 new infections out of ...

Children have been sent to school without parents waiting for clear coronavirus test results and some have later been found to be infected, health officials said last night. Kim Wilson, the health minister, warned parents that children should not ret...

More than 2,860 people have signed a petition urging the Government to scrap the Covid-19 SafeKey requirement. The petition, posted on the change.org platform, claims that the regulation is having a damaging effect on the economy. Under current C...

Two deaths from Covid-19 were reported last night – which pushed the death toll from the coronavirus up to 112. Officials added that there were 14 patients in hospital – two of them in intensive care. The last deaths attributed to the coronavirus wer...

The Government has been criticised, with good reason, for its recent handling of the surge in the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The breakdown of the testing system and the delays in reopening schools were all predictable; while no one expects ...

Covid-19 restrictions for schoolchildren were branded as excessive and heavy-handed yesterday. Parents of public and private school pupils said that classroom quarantines, masks in schools and the ten-day test rule after travel should all be relaxed....

Active cases of Covid-19 have continued to climb, up to 1,953 from the 1,882 announced five days ago. There are now 13 people in hospital with the coronavirus, two of them in intensive care, as well as a new record for active infections. There were t...

Children aged 12 and up are now eligible for booster shots against Covid-19, the Government announced last night. Kim Wilson, the health minister, revealed the booster jab could go to children who received their second dose of the vaccine six month a...

A new record for Covid-19 numbers was revealed last night as cases shot up to 1,882. The total surpassed the 1,612 peak of cases logged on September 21 last year – the height of Bermuda’s fourth wave. A total of 661 new infections were recorded from ...

Another shipment of Covid-19 vaccines arrived on the island on Wednesday night, Government House has announced. Government House confirmed in a Facebook post that 14,040 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived on last night’s British Airways fli...