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Visitors to Bermuda will be required to have a negative coronavirus test no more than five days before their departure to Bermuda, health minister Kim Wilson said tonight.
Non-residents were earlier required to have a negative test inside seven days ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Simple acts of kindness can ease the stress of an unprecedented year, the health minister said yesterday.
Kim Wilson, speaking at an event to mark last Saturday’s end of Mental Health Awareness Week, appealed to the public to continue the event’s the...
DATE: Oct 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A child who arrived last Wednesday from London has tested positive for Covid-19, it was announced last night.
The nine-year-old was said to be a resident who arrived on the British Airways flight.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the case had sh...
DATE: Sep 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island’s first child case of Covid-19 was logged yesterday after a ten-year-old tested positive for the coronavirus.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the youngster was one of two positive cases of the illness out of 2,140 test results that h...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s coronavirus test regime ranks top in the Americas and seventh worldwide per head of population, it was revealed last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister said the island had carried out nearly 46,000 tests during the pandemic.
She was spe...
DATE: Sep 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Contact tracing was under way last night for four new cases of Covid-19, the health ministry said.
Three cases are known to have come in from overseas and the source of the fourth is under investigation.
All four are in isolation.
A ministry spokeswo...
DATE: Aug 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three positive cases of Covid-19 were imported on the JetBlue flight from New York on Friday, the Ministry of Health reported over the weekend.
All were residents who did not have pre-departure tests, and contact tracing began on Saturday to isolate ...
DATE: Aug 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
No new cases of Covid-19 were found on the island yesterday after 561 test results came back clear for the coronavirus.
The island’s total confirmed cases of the illness remained at 159, with five active cases under public health monitoring and none ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The island’s confirmed cases of Covid-19 remained at 159 yesterday, after 643 test results all came in negative.
There were five active cases of the illness, all under public health monitoring, with none in hospital.
A total of 145 had recovered, and...
DATE: Aug 12, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A single case of Covid-19 was logged out of 1,211 test results for the illness that came back between Sunday and yesterday.
The Ministry of Health said the case came in on the Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta last Monday.
The returned resident had...
DATE: Aug 11, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell