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England’s travel restrictions against Covid-19 will be loosened tomorrow and the pre-departure test will be dropped for travellers. The British government’s website added that fully vaccinated travellers will also not have to quarantine in England on...

More schools are set to reopen tomorrow after another day of Covid-19 tests – but the senior schools and several middle schools will stay closed. Tinee Furbert, the acting education minister, said: “We continue to make notable progress with school op...

Just a handful of public schools will open their classrooms today, the Ministry of Education confirmed last night. A spokeswoman said there would be a “staggered opening of schools for term two” – with no middle or senior schools opening as parents a...

More than 500 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed which pushed the number of active infections past 900, the Ministry of Health said. But there are just two people in hospital, neither of them in intensive care. A spokeswoman said that the mini...

Staffing levels at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital have been hit by the highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19, it was revealed. A spokeswoman for the Bermuda Hospitals Board confirmed that 25 staff were off work after they were infected...

Travellers leaving the island must still attend a Covid-19 test centre, health officials have advised. But a spokeswoman acknowledged that delays in getting test results continued, a problem said to be caused by the latest outbreak driven by Omicron ...

The global surge of Omicron cases has sparked a shortage of antigen tests overseas, but Bermuda has not been affected. Stricter regulations aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 in the UK, combined with the holiday season has caused a run on testin...

The Government has introduced antigen testing at the airport after travellers were left scrambling to obtain last minute pre-departure Covid-19 tests after failing to receive their results. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said that a signifi...

A restaurateur has introduced day time entertainment over the festive season in a bid to beat curfew restrictions on night-time events. Dennie O’Connor of The White Horse Pub and Restaurant in St George, said: “I am encouraging the public to keep din...

It was a landmark moment for Bermuda after the island had endured ten months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The island’s first batch of 9,750 doses of the vaccine against the coronavirus touched down from the UK just eight days into the new year. R...

The contagious new strain of the coronavirus virus could deplete the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital of vital medical staff, the Bermuda Hospitals Board has warned. A spokeswoman for the BHB said the Omicron variant could force staff to take time o...

Increased demand for Covid-19 tests after a Delta Air Lines flight was cancelled caused huge queues at a test centre today, the Ministry of Health said tonight. A spokeswoman for the ministry said that the queues at the Perot Post Office on Queen Str...