Bermuda vaccinates 1 in 4 residents
Bermuda has now administered over 17,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, meaning one in four residents have received at least one dose of the two-shot vaccine.
Additionally, the Ministry of Health says 16 per cent of the population is now fully immunised. While the vaccine milestone is one that is being celebrated, the ministry has maintained that precautions should be taken following the report of new virus infection on Friday. The individual has no recent travel history.
Bermuda currently has 28 active COVID-19 cases
with no hospitalisations.
To date the country has had a total of 732, with
692 people recovered and the death toll remains 12.
According
to the ministry, the seven-day average of the island’s real time reproduction
number is below one, and Bermuda’s country status remains at “sporadic cases”.
