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A visitor who arrived from Britain tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend.
It was the single positive among 919 test results received by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.
The person who tested positive arrived on the British Airways f...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
There were no new cases of the coronavirus in 769 test results received by the Ministry of Health today.
Bermuda has had 168 confirmed cases and 151 people have recovered.
Eight people who tested positive for the coronavirus are “active cases” but ar...
DATE: Aug 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A single case of the coronavirus was detected among 1,493 test results that came back to health officials between Sunday and yesterday.
A health ministry spokeswoman said: “The latest positive case is classified as local transmission as the new posit...
DATE: Aug 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Chief Medical Officer expected to spend the past few months completing projects before she settled into retirement after a career in public health that spanned almost three decades.
But Cheryl Peek-Ball’s final stretch in the job was instead cons...
DATE: Aug 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A Hamilton café apologised today for causing concern after it told customers that a diner tested positive for the coronavirus.
Café Acoreano, on Washington Street, clarified that the Ministry of Health was carrying out contact tracing to determine wh...
DATE: Aug 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An expanded government laboratory will be set up at Bermuda College to help train scientists in an “amazing” achievement for the island, the Premier said.
David Burt revealed that Carika Weldon, a geneticist, will move back home from Britain to set u...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A queue of about 50 people lined up outside the Perot Post Office yesterday as travellers waited to get coronavirus tests.
The line stretched into Queen Elizabeth Park, off Queen Street, in Hamilton, at about 11am as visitors and returned residents t...
DATE: Aug 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The next Chief Medical Officer was announced yesterday as the Government confirmed that Cheryl Peek-Ball will leave the post at the end of this month.
Ayoola Oyinloye arrived in Bermuda this week and will join the Ministry of Health after his quarant...
DATE: Aug 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A teenager who broke Covid-19 quarantine rules will not face punishment, the health minister said last night.
Kim Wilson said at the regular Covid-19 briefing that the returned resident, who arrived back on the island from Atlanta last month, was “pu...
DATE: Aug 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Enforcement action could be taken if Covid-19 rules are broken, the Ministry of Health reminded residents.
A spokeswoman added that investigations into two quarantine breaches last month were handed over to police, although one has since closed.
She ...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter