This article needs to be updated.(December 2022) |
COVID-19 pandemic in Bermuda | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Bermuda |
Index case | 18 March 2020 |
Arrival date | 18 March 2020 (4 years, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 18,860 |
Deaths | 165 |
Fatality rate | 0.87% |
Vaccinations | |
Government website | |
Government of Bermuda Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Ministry of Health Crowdsourced Community Spread Data COVID-19 testing |
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COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies |
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(Part of the global COVID-19 pandemic) |
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed by diagnostic test to have reached the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda on 18 March 2020; with individuals having arrived from the UK and US. Those individuals had been traced to back to the fourth and sixth of March. This was the first it was confirmed and some believe that COVID-19 could have been on island undetected with asymptomatic individuals before that time.
The Government of Bermuda has pushed to keep its people safe from COVID-19 and to reduce social media rumors. To assist in the reduced rumors on social media, the official government website (to the left) was updated with a direct link for information relating to Bermuda. They also used WhatsApp to communicate with the general public. Therefore, due to the size of Bermuda and limited published worldwide data the below data can be verified via the media links below.
The Ministry of Health also did not report on some data information until the identifications of individuals could be protected. Bermuda is a small community and using process of elimination identities could be revealed when numbers are small. Therefore, data regarding details, flights, race, and age did not get published until privacy could be maintained.