COVID-19 Update - 29 August

Today there were 919 test results received by the Ministry of Health, and one was positive for COVID-19. The latest positive case is a visitor who arrived on the BA flight on Friday 28th August. Contact tracing has begun.

Bermuda has had 169 total confirmed positive cases. Their status is as follows:

• 153 have recovered, and
• there are 7 active cases, who are
• all under active public health monitoring;
• none is hospitalized or in critical care, and
• the total deceased remains 9.

The source of all local cases is as follows:

• 62 are Imported
• 86 are Local transmission, with known contact
• 19 are Local transmission with an unknown contact, and
• 2 are under investigation

Bermuda’s country status is “Sporadic Cases”. The seven-day average of our real time reproduction number is less than 1.