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A lawyer has backed plans to quarantine arrivals without a Covid-19 vaccination at a special Government centre. Mark Diel said that public safety considerations had to override personal freedom in a crisis. Mr Diel, of law firm Marshall, Diel & Myers...

Just two coronavirus cases were logged yesterday, health officials revealed tonight. The infections were among 1,014 results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.2 per cent. Both cases were recorded as on-island transmissions w...

American television network NBC has highlighted the pandemic perils of overseas travel after one of its producers was forced to quarantine in Bermuda. Mimi Segal, an NBC10Boston producer, said that she and her husband planned a break on the island af...

A total of five new coronavirus cases have been logged, the health ministry said tonight. The cases were among 447 test results that came back to health officials today – a positivity rate of 1.1 per cent. The five cases were all recorded as on-islan...

A steroid used to treat asthmatics may have protected them from infection by the coronavirus, a member of an health group said yesterday. Tracy Nash, the director of education at asthma charity Open Airways, said that asthmatics were not as badly aff...

Taxi drivers should get the Covid-19 jab because of the high-risk nature of the job, the head of the industry’s trade association said yesterday. David Frost, the president of the Bermuda Taxi Operators Association, added that a high number of driver...

The weekly Covid-19 press conference scheduled for 5.30pm today has been postponed until Thursday. A government spokeswoman said the postponement would enable David Burt, the Premier, and Kim Wilson, the health minister, time to give an update on “r...

Join The Royal Gazette’s live video partner the Washington Post today at 1pm on www.royalgazette.com for a special programme on diabetes - one of the most common chronic diseases in the US and Bermuda. Diabetes is a public health emergency that has...

The island’s death toll from Covid-19 has reached 30, the health minister announced last night. Kim Wilson offered her condolences to the family of the victim as the island marked the second death from the disease inside three days. The news was anno...

Prison officials have stonewalled questions on claims that a Westgate inmate has been in isolation for a month after he refused to take a coronavirus PCR nasal test on medical grounds. The inmate’s mother claimed the man could have been exposed to C...