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Ministry of Health August 29th COVID Update

COVID-19 Update – 29 August

Saturday, August 29th, 2020
COVID-19 Updates
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.