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Dear Sir, Do you recall that meme that made the rounds several times showing a crowd of people at a rally doing the Nazi salute but with one man in the middle folding his arms and appearing to look around? The caption was something like “be this guy”...

Business leaders have backed quarantine policy changes for people who are close contacts of infected people. Karl Massam, the head of the Chamber of Commerce’s restaurant division and general manager of the Yellowfin restaurant group, said yesterday ...

A major crowdfunding website has rejected a bid by campaigners opposed to the Government’s Covid-19 vaccination programme to use it to raise cash. The Bermuda Freedom Alliance linked up with the GoFundMe platform last year to raise cash to record int...

A firefighter has been honoured for her work in the management of the island’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Lieutenant Russann Francis won the Public Service Excellence Award for December. She was congratulated by David Burt, the Premier, an...

Close contacts of people who test positive for the coronavirus no longer need to quarantine as long as they have been fully vaccinated within six months and are showing no symptoms, the Government said last night. The change, announced last week, was...

A petition backing the Government’s science adviser attracted hundreds of new signatures over the weekend in the wake of her resignation. More than 8,000 people had shown their support for Carika Weldon on Change.org by yesterday afternoon. The petit...

Staff shortages have forced bus services to run on an “enhanced Sunday schedule” from Monday, the Department of Public Transportation said yesterday. A spokeswoman said: “The DPT apologises for the inconvenience caused by the temporary service and is...

Quarantine periods are to be cut from next week, the health minister revealed yesterday. Kim Wilson added that schoolchildren would also switch from PCR tests to the antigen type. Ms Wilson insisted that the changes to quarantine requirements would h...

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 ...

The loss of the Government’s science adviser and head of its Covid-19 test lab in just 18 days’ time will have no effect on the lab’s performance, the health minister declared yesterday. Kim Wilson said the resignation of Carika Weldon, the executive...

Hospital patients could be asked to recuperate at home to avoid bed blocking as medics braced themselves for an influx of patients, a senior doctor said yesterday. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, warned that he expec...

Some pupils at Bermuda High School were learning online this week after pupils tested positive for the coronavirus. Linda Parker, the head of school, said that staff had done everything it could to keep as many pupils in classrooms as possible. But s...