Covid-19: Nine New Positive Results, 37 Active
There were 1,903 test results received and nine were positive for Covid-19, so Bermuda now has a total of 37 active cases.
A Government spokesperson said, “Over the weekend there were 1903 test results received by the Ministry of Health from 28-29 November 2020, and nine were positive for COVID-19.
“Two of the new cases are classified as imported with details as follows:
- 2 residents who arrived on B62231 from New York on 28 November 2020 and tested positive on arrival
“Five of the new cases are classified as local transmission with known contact with details as follows:
- 5 residents who were under quarantine as close contacts [4 household and 1 workplace] of known cases
“Two of the new cases are classified as under investigation with details as follows:
- 2 symptomatic residents with no identified links to travel or other known cases or clusters
“Bermuda now has 260 total confirmed positive cases. Their status is as follows:
- there are 37 active cases, of which
- 36 are under public health monitoring, and
- One is hospitalized. None are in critical care;
- a total of 214 have recovered, and
- the total deceased remains 9.
“The average age of all of our confirmed positive cases is 52 years and the age range of all of our positive cases is from 0 to 101 years.
“To protect privacy and confidentiality, the age of the hospitalized case will not be provided.
“The average age of all deceased cases is 74 years and the age range is 57 to 91 years.
“The source of all cases is as follows:
- 121 are Imported
- 110 are Local transmission, with known contact/source
- 21 are Local transmission with an unknown contact/source, and
- 8 are under investigation
“It is important to note that as investigations proceed, transmission categories may change.
“The seven-day average of our real time reproduction number is greater than 1 [1.38] and Bermuda’s current country status is ‘Clusters of Cases’.
“A reminder that the Minister of Health and the Minister of Education will hold a press conference at 5:15pm today regarding COVID-19.”
As the island and world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, we are doing our best to provide timely and accurate information, and you can find more information on the links below.
- All: Our coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic here
- Official: The Bermuda Government website here
- World Stats: Live graph of all cases worldwide here
- Bermuda Stats: Chart of the Bermuda stats here
- Timeline: Visual look at the timeline here
- Comprehensive: Our BermudaCovid.com website here
Getting close to lock down peoole
Where’s Burty???? Not sticking his face in the camera now.
Him and Broom are meeting with “young Bermudian entrepreneurs” at Shelly Bay.
Where’s the 6 obaubp????? Probably busy holding 1 floor 4 walls & 1 ceiling
yep that’s the 6.
You’re always looking for the OBA to bail you out…can’t you do anything for yourself?
Wow, you must be the poster child for the Pee L Pee’s failed education system.
They sitting at the six sided table with jet gate and horse gate.
I don’t have that information in front of me but I can certainly get back to you
Shut the Airport
Don’t you read the news? If we shut the airport then income from new PWC logo pasted all over new airport like it’s a billboard will be lost and that’s only income we have to help pay guarantees to AECON.