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George Aiken, a centrist Republican senator from Vermont in the 1960s, has long been credited with the quote that the "US should declare victory in Vietnam and leave". The Vermont senator's actual statement was more nuanced than that, but the idea of...

Unvaccinated travellers will be able to spend some of their mandatory quarantine at home instead of a hotel, it was revealed last night. David Burt, the Premier, said unvaccinated people who arrived on the island with a clear preflight PCR test would...

The Delta variant of Covid-19 is well and truly in Bermuda now. Last night, the health ministry reported that 92 people had Covid-19, up from just 19 a mere three weeks ago. Of those 92 cases, the vast majority are the Delta variant, which is more i...

Almost 96 per cent of Bermuda’s doctors recommended the Covid-19 vaccine in a major survey of the profession by the Bermuda Medical Doctors’ Association. The association poll found 68 island doctors said they would recommend the Pfizer or Moderna vac...

Tourism figures are moving in the right direction despite the massive damage inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the Bermuda Tourism Authority said today. Charles Jeffers II, the BTA CEO, said that a global surge in Covid-19 cases had cre...

With the threat from the Delta variant bearing down across the United States, it is almost hard to remember the heady days this summer when many of us were experiencing relief, joy, even euphoria as we began to resurface from the pandemic. Barbecues ...

The Government last night continued to urge the public to consider Covid-19 vaccinations as the number of active cases of the virus in the latest outbreak continued to rise. Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said: “What the past has shown is whenev...

When the coronavirus vaccines became widely available, I thought hospitals such as mine might turn a corner. For a brief moment, things nearly did. Here in Alabama, the pandemic never totally disappeared, but as spring became summer, the number of se...

We’re close, so close … but yet so far. There is a little light at the end of the tunnel, but with the advent of the Delta variant, that light has blurred. So much has changed in our lives since Sars-CoV-2 decided to take a liking to us. I will neve...

It is said that death is the great equaliser. With Covid, it may also be the great teacher, the tutor in a horrific avoidable tragedy. For months, governments, commentators and editorials have been about encouraging, nudging, educating people to get ...

The residents of the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo have not received Covid-19 vaccinations, but that could change as research continues. Ian Walker, principle curator at BAMZ, confirmed that while some larger zoos in the United States have been wor...

Bermuda risks another spike of Covid-19 cases if people let their guard down, the shadow health minister warned last night. Michael Dunkley issued the warning after the number of active cases increased from 25 to 36 - the highest in two months - in ...