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A reinsurance firm has donated $45,000 to help pay for Covid-19 tests in schools. PartnerRe said the donation towards lateral antigen testing was designed to help pupils get back to their classrooms. A spokesman said: “PartnerRe is committed to suppo...

International businesses have donated $281,000 to buy fast coronavirus tests for public schools. The money will be used to buy more than 99,000 lateral flow test kits, which allow users to test themselves for the coronavirus and give results inside 1...

Pupils from three more schools went back to their classrooms today as remote learning is gradually phased out. Victor Scott Primary, Prospect Primary and Purvis Primary, opened for the first time since last month. Yesterday Gilbert Institute, Port Ro...

The Bermuda Health Council has published a list of approved antigen tests for the coronavirus. The tests can be conducted at home and provide a result in minutes – although a positive result will still have to be confirmed by a follow-up PCR test. Ri...

Covid-19 tests that can be administered at home and give a result in just 15 minutes are to be given to frontline workers and charities. The rapid antigen test kits, which were approved by Government, will be donated by CG Insurance. The company sai...

A private school has announced it will use lateral flow tests for the coronavirus for its pupils and staff. Saltus is one of several private schools to offer the tests, which will be administered at home. Deryn Lavell, the head of the school, said th...

A surge in test demand has put staff in the lab leading the fight against Covid-19 under increased pressure. Carika Weldon, who heads Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in the East End, said on Twitter that staff had worked long hours – and some had al...

Bermuda has recorded another three cases of the Covid-19 virus, according to test results released by the department of health on Friday night. The results came from a batch of 6,535 tests conducted on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and bring the nu...

A teenager has called for shade to be installed outside a Covid-19 testing site after she fainted in the heat and suffered facial injuries - and a medical bill of almost $3,000. Celena Pires, 18, from Germany, flew to Bermuda last week on vacation a...

Bermuda has one of the best Covid-19 testing regimes in the world, according to the Premier. David Burt added that countries were following Bermuda as a model to improve their own testing rates. Mr Burt was speaking at the official opening of a new p...

The deadline for young people to sign up for a volunteer programme at the Government’s Covid-19 testing laboratory is fast approaching, a spokeswoman said today. The Molecular Diagnostics Lab will accept applications for its Summer Student Volunteer ...

Doctors were forced to cancel hundreds of non-emergency operations because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases. Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said that elective surgery had to be postponed between March and Ma...