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On-island processing of tests for the potentially lethal coronavirus will start this week, the national security minister said yesterday. Wayne Caines said: “I do not know the exact time. “I can tell you that we will have the ability within the not...

An action plan to help some of the island’s most vulnerable groups during the coronavirus crisis is under development, it was announced yesterday. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said he hoped that a plan to help the homeless could b...

The Covid-19 pandemic is as big a threat to mental health as it is to physical health, and some in Bermuda are already suffering the effects, specialists said. Kelly Madeiros, Adriene Berkeley and Grant Farquhar of Solstice Bermuda, an holistic welln...

People should get off the streets and stay indoors to limit the spread of Covid-19, the national security minister warned yesterday. Wayne Caines said he was “concerned” that people continued to carry on normal business after the first cases were con...

The Washington Mall will close today and is expected to open again next month, its owners have announced. Paul Slaughter, the general manager, of Washington Properties (Bermuda) Ltd, said it came after advice from Wayne Caines, the Minister of Nation...

A special Covid-19 hotline has taken more than 100 calls since it opened yesterday. The news came as Kim Wilson, the health minister, toured the call centre and met its seven phone operators today. Ms Wilson said: “I was grateful to be able to meet t...

Piped water supplies will cope with demand over the Covid-19 crisis, the island’s biggest provider predicted yesterday. Allan Rance, the chief executive officer of Bermuda Waterworks, which distributes Watlington Water through an underground network,...

A support group will hold its weekly meeting through a digital app tomorrow to make sure that people can still connect while social distancing. The AA Onion Patch get-together will be from 9am until 10am on Saturday but participants can access it fro...

New restrictions on blood donations have been put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic — but new donors are still needed. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said people cannot donate blood if they have either been to an area with an outbreak of Covi...

Bermudians abroad were asked to return to the island “as soon as possible”. A spokesman for the Ministry of Tourism and Transport warned yesterday that more flight suspensions to Bermuda were “likely” and the Government did not want people stranded o...