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Quarantine guidance for Covid-19 is being reassessed, the Government has confirmed. As of August 31, government mandates require anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 to isolate for at least a week and complete contact-tracing provisions. But a spok...

A man accused of breaking quarantine rules said natural immunity had succeeded in getting him through Customs before and thought it would work again, a court heard. Michael Watson, 46, said that he had brought up his Covid natural immunity status and...

Senators have approved legislation that will see quarantine exemptions for members of certain armed forces removed. The Quarantine Amendment Bill 2022 seeks to amend the Quarantine Act 2017 to make provisions for the Quarantine Authority to make eme...

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...

The Opposition has welcomed a decision to drop a policy that forced non-vaccinated travellers to quarantine in approved centres. But the One Bermuda Alliance asked the Government to provide details on how much the controversial policy had cost taxpay...

Mandatory supervised quarantine regulations could be relaxed as early as next week after the Chief Justice yesterday dismissed a legal challenge to the controversial policy. Speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday evening, the Premier said that w...

A campaigner opposed to mandatory supervised quarantining has again maintained that he did not submit a medical exemption form when he returned from an overseas trip last week. Antonio Belvedere acknowledged that he did share an exemption letter from...

The Opposition is calling on Government to enforce mandatory supervised quarantine laws following a series of incidents at the airport this week. Michael Dunkley, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman for national security, pointed out that the party op...

An opponent of mandatory quarantine was allowed to quarantine at home with a monitoring bracelet yesterday after the Government said he fell into an exempted category. But Antonio Belvedere claimed on social media that he did not pay for or complete ...

The doctor running Government’s Covid-19 testing facility has provided details of how vaccinations can dramatically reduce the spread of the disease. Carika Weldon, who heads the department of health’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, also explained...

Research shows that people are more likely to breach quarantine if they are at home rather than under supervision in a government approved hotel, according to a lawyer. Delroy Duncan QC made the claim yesterday during the second day of a Supreme Cour...

Lawyers representing three Bermuda residents challenging controversial Covid-19 public safety restrictions presented their case before the Chief Justice yesterday. Courtenay Griffiths QC and Mark Pettingill – representing Albert Brewster, Vincent Li...