MINISTRY OF HEALTH COVID-19 UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2020

Between October 23, 24 and 25, there were 2,643 test results received by the Ministry of Health and three were positive for COVID-19. These cases are classified as imported and arrived on the following flights:

1. asymptomatic resident arrived on October 14^th via Jet Blue (B61731) from JFK and tested positive on their day 8 test
2. on-resident arrived October 22^nd  via British Airways (BA2233) and was tested due to becoming symptomatic
3. symptomatic resident arrived October 16^th via Air Canada (AC942) from Toronto who tested positive on their day 8 test.

Case isolation and contact tracing has begun.
Bermuda now has 193 total confirmed positive cases. Their status is as follows:

• there are 9 active cases, who are
• all under public health monitoring, and
• none are hospitalized or in critical care;
• a total of 175 have recovered, and
• the total deceased remains 9.

The average age of all of our confirmed positive cases is 55 and the age range of all of our positive cases is from 7 to 101 years.
The average age of all deceased cases is 74 and the age range is 57 to 91 years.
The source of all local cases is as follows:

• 82 are Imported
• 0 are Local transmission, with known contact
• 21 are Local transmission with an unknown contact, and
• none are under investigation

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