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The number of active Covid-19 cases has risen to 29 after seven positive tests were recorded yesterday.
Four of the new cases were imported by residents who arrived on an American Airlines flight from Miami on Monday and tested positive on arrival.
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DATE: Mar 11, 2021
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
More than $30 million was spent in the battle against the coronavirus in the first seven months after its arrival last March, it was revealed today.
The news came in a report issued by Heather Thomas, the Auditor-General, after an examination of the...
DATE: Mar 05, 2021
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Three more coronavirus cases were recorded today, which brought the number of active cases up to 22.
All the cases classified as coming in from overseas and were among 346 results that came back to health officials.
The positive tests were all passen...
DATE: Mar 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A fresh delivery of the Covid-19 vaccines will arrive from the UK tonight.
Government House confirmed that 10,530 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, along with essential equipment, will be brought in on the British Airways flight.
The delivery will bring t...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda yesterday recorded another five Covid-19 cases, bringing the number of active cases to 21.
All of the new cases, which came from a batch of 479 test results, were classified as local transmission through contact with known cases.
The results ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A restaurateur has welcomed moves by Government to encourage employees to return to the workplace.
But Phillip Barnett of the Island Restaurant Group said the industry still needed more “sustained relief” in order to recover from “significant losses”...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A curfew is to be reintroduced after a spike in coronavirus cases, the health minister announced last night.
Kim Wilson said the move was made after the island suffered an “emerging outbreak” of Covid-19 which may be be linked to the virulent UK stra...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Employees have been encouraged to return to their offices rather than work from home in a bid to boost the economy.
David Burt, the Premier, spoke out after Hamilton restaurants, coffee shops and stores reported a dip in daytime trade – fuelled in pa...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A nurse who had both doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine said yesterday that side-effects were a sign that the body’s immune system had worked.
Dunae Richards also appealed to Black people to sign up for the jab and insisted that there was “a level ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Bermudian nurse who has watched Covid-19 patients die in the UK yesterday appealed to the Bermudian public to get the vaccine.
Angela Whayman, 32, said that the vaccine was “the only way to make progress in halting this destructive virus”.
Ms Whaym...
DATE: Feb 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan