The Ministry received 4,169 test results — spanning 7 days — and 118 were positive, so there are now 144 known active cases, of which 7 people are in hospital.
A Government spokesperson said, “Since the last update, the Ministry of Health received 4169 test results, and 118 were positive for the coronavirus, giving a test positivity rate of 3%.
“These results are from testing done on:
- Tuesday: 26 positive out of 690 results [3.8% positivity]
- Wednesday: 20 positive out of 622 results [3.2% positivity]
- Thursday: 13 positive out of 503 results [2.6% positivity]
- Friday: 20 positive out of 523 results [3.8% positivity]
- Saturday: 11 positive out of 660 results [1.7% positivity]
- Sunday: 17 positive out of 646 results [2.6% positivity]
- Monday: 11 positive out of 525 results [2.1% positivity]
“52 of the new cases are classified as imported.
“The additional 66 new cases are classified as either local transmission [23] or under investigation [43].
“Additionally, there were 212 recoveries and 0 deaths.
“There are 144 active cases, of which:
- 137 are under public health monitoring; and
- 7 are in hospital, with 0 in intensive care.
“Since March 2020, Bermuda has recorded 17674 coronavirus cases, out of which 17382 have recovered, and sadly there have been 148 coronavirus-related deaths.
“The source of all active cases is as follows:
- 58 are Imported
- 35 are classified as local transmission
- 51 are Under Investigation
“The source of all confirmed cases is as follows:
- 3816 are Imported
- 13680 are classified as local transmission of which:
- 5868 are Local transmission with known contact/source and
- 7812 are Local transmission with an unknown contact/source
- 178 are Under Investigation
“As investigations proceed, transmission categories may change. For age distributions and overall transmission categories, please refer to https://www.gov.bm/coronavirus-covid19-update. The seven-day average of our real-time reproduction number is 0.47.
“For information regarding other conditions being reported to the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, please refer to https://www.gov.bm/health-information.”
