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Government has set up a mobile vaccination centre this morning at the Washington Mall for those seeking to be immunised from the Covid-19 virus.
Medics will be stationed behind Gibbons Home Store and across from Gold Standard from 10am until 2pm.
A h...
DATE: Jul 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Campaigners opposed to Covid-19 public safety measures will be holding a protest on the grounds of the Cabinet office this evening.
Describing the event as a “worldwide rally for freedom”, pressure group Bermuda Freedom Alliance said the demonstratio...
DATE: Jul 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Bermuda Hospitals Board is offering breast ultrasound for people with dense breast tissue in order to track down cancers in their early stages.
BHB provided the service to its first patients last week after acquiring an automated breast ultrasoun...
DATE: Jul 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An Opposition MP has called for the Government to launch a fresh campaign to revive the vaccination programme.
Michael Dunkley, the Opposition spokesman for health and national security, made the call last night after new statistics showed the numbe...
DATE: Jul 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A campaigner opposed to mandatory supervised quarantining has again maintained that he did not submit a medical exemption form when he returned from an overseas trip last week.
Antonio Belvedere acknowledged that he did share an exemption letter from...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A team of medics has been formed to support those with intellectual disabilities and their families at home.
The Community Intellectual Disabilities Team consists of nurses and therapists who work together to meet the needs of the clients and their f...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Government’s Covid-19 vaccination programme is “drifting without impetus” and is unlikely to achieve herd immunity targets, according to the Opposition.
Michael Dunkley, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman for National Security and Health, spoke out f...
DATE: Jul 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda has one of the best Covid-19 testing regimes in the world, according to the Premier.
David Burt added that countries were following Bermuda as a model to improve their own testing rates.
Mr Burt was speaking at the official opening of a new p...
DATE: Jul 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The doctor running Government’s Covid-19 testing facility has provided details of how vaccinations can dramatically reduce the spread of the disease.
Carika Weldon, who heads the department of health’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, also explained...
DATE: Jul 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
More than 87 per cent of the population would need to be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity from Covid-19 variants, according to a government scientist.
Carika Weldon made the recommendation in an affidavit last month after a number of posi...
DATE: Jul 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan