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Increases are planned for mandatory health insurance premiums in line with “current market realities”, legislators heard yesterday in the House of Assembly. The higher rates will support extra prescription drug benefits and a health programme for uni...

Bermuda’s Covid-19 have shot to more than 500, quadrupling in weeks with more than 20 people now in hospital and five in intensive care. David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly the island’s unvaccinated were bearing the brunt of the new s...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has accused Government of poor planning after it closed schools at short notice. Public school pupils were due to go back to the classroom today for the start of the new academic year. But on Tuesday Diallo Rabain,...

A fresh outbreak of Covid-19 is being driven in part by “people going to work with actual symptoms”, the health minister said yesterday afternoon as she “reluctantly” conceded the island was seeing its fourth wave of infections from the virus. “This ...

Doctors revealed last night that a second “satellite” intensive care unit had been opened at the hospital in preparation for a likely surge in Covid-19 cases. Michael Richmond, the chief executive of the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said he was “confiden...

A surge in test demand has put staff in the lab leading the fight against Covid-19 under increased pressure. Carika Weldon, who heads Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in the East End, said on Twitter that staff had worked long hours – and some had al...

A surge in Covid-19 cases has forced the police to ask the public to avoid visits to stations unless “absolutely necessary”. Exceptions include victims of abuse to make reports or get assistance, and people on bail – who are still required to report ...

The island’s Covid-19 death toll has risen to 35, it was announced last night. Health officials added that 225 new cases of the coronavirus had been detected among 10,984 test results that had come back since the last update – a positivity rate of 2 ...

An overflow intensive care unit is to be pressed into service as the hospital braces itself for a surge in Covid-19 cases, it emerged tonight. The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute will also introduce visiting ...

A team of health professionals working with the intellectually disabled has moved to new offices. The Community Intellectual Disability Team – which provides a range of services for intellectual disability clients and their families at home – was pr...