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Quarantine and test rules will be loosened next week, the health minister announced today. Kim Wilson also signalled changes to test requirements for schoolchildren, with a switch from PCR testing requirements to antigen testing. Ms Wilson said the q...

Almost 150 hospital staff are off work due to Covid-19 — with pressure on services mounting as the number of Omicron cases continues to surge. The announcement came after the Bermuda Police Service announced that 48 of its 400-strong force were absen...

The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance is urging the Government not to renew public safety restrictions when they expire next week. Michael Dunkley, the Shadow Minister of Health, also said that SafeKey and travel authorisation forms should be abolished...

A bar and restaurant in a prime location has been forced to cut back its lunchtime opening hours after the coronavirus slashed customer numbers. Bermuda Bistro at the Beach, on Front Street, Hamilton, will open from 3pm between Monday and Thursday, a...

The island’s active cases of Covid-19 have climbed to 1,604 — the second highest level recorded since the pandemic hit the island almost two years ago. There were 689 positive cases from 7,125 tests carried out from last Tuesday to Thursday. Tuesday’...

The Government is to introduce a pilot at-home coronavirus antigen test programme at some schools, The Royal Gazette understands. A letter said to be from Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, was sent to “system leaders” after a backlog o...

A woman who suffers from liver poisoning and malnutrition warned the public to be careful over the food they eat. Mickia Brangman, 33, said it was difficult for Bermudians to eat a good diet because of the expense and easy access to unhealthy food. S...

The Government may relax quarantine measures imposed to stem a recent surge in coronavirus infections, The Royal Gazette can reveal. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health confirmed that the Government was aware that other countries had reduced qua...

When a former model got sick when she was aged 20, she assumed she had picked up a stomach bug after she moved to Spain. But after 13 years of illness and visits to a string of specialists Mickia Brangman will have to go to the UK for treatment for a...

Phone software may have cut cases of Covid-19 by as much as 20 per cent during the island’s worst outbreak, the company that created the programme has said. WeHealth, a US-based firm, said that the app, now being used by about 25 per cent of resident...