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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...

The Government yesterday denied it lost its grip on the coronavirus crisis after long delays in the test system left most schools closed on the first day of term and caused “chaotic” scenes at the airport. Kim Wilson, the health minister, defended th...

JetBlue’s decision to downgrade its service to Bermuda came as no surprise, two air industry executives said yesterday. Aaron Adderley, the president of airport operators Skyport, also highlighted the island’s strict travel restrictions to combat Cov...

The Premier yesterday came under fire from a previous head of government after he demanded the right to pick which journalists were allowed to interview him. David Burt drew criticism from Michael Dunkley of the Opposition after The Royal Gazette was...

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...

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...

Both senior schools will stay shut today, the Government announced last night. CedarBridge Academy and Berkeley Institute will continue with remote learning amid problems with coronavirus testing of large numbers of staff and pupils across the school...

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...

The Government last night stayed tight-lipped on how essential services had been affected by the latest wave of coronavirus infections — despite repeated questions from The Royal Gazette. Officials were e-mailed a series of questions last week a...

The Government failed to listen to the profession before the “massively botched” reopening of the island’s public schools, the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday. Nishanthi Bailey, the BUT president, said teachers had been “bullied” by the educ...

A scientist sounded the alarm four times last week that the coronavirus test system was about to be overwhelmed by the latest outbreak — but was ignored by Government officials. Carika Weldon, the director of the Molecular Diagnostic and Research Lab...