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Travelling residents are still being blocked from boarding flights to Bermuda because travel regulations listed on Government’s website have not been updated, it has been revealed.
Last Friday, Government jettisoned a controversial directive groundin...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The deadline for young people to sign up for a volunteer programme at the Government’s Covid-19 testing laboratory is fast approaching, a spokeswoman said today.
The Molecular Diagnostics Lab will accept applications for its Summer Student Volunteer ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Doctors were forced to cancel hundreds of non-emergency operations because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases.
Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said that elective surgery had to be postponed between March and Ma...
DATE: Jun 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
There were two new coronavirus results recorded yesterday, the health ministry said tonight.
The positives were among 5,913 test results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.03 per cent.
The tests, taken between last Thursday a...
DATE: Jun 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A restaurant owner with 31 years’ experience in the industry predicted it would take several years to regain ground lost in the Covid-19 crisis.
Maz Shabdeen, who was forced to close his Dockyard restaurant early in the crisis, warned that even with ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudians have been unable to board flights to the island because of problems with Covid-19 travel authorisation, the Government said yesterday.
A Government spokeswoman said that “no Bermudian will be denied the ability to return home” and that ai...
DATE: Jun 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Strict new quarantine rules that came into force were today outlined by the national security ministry.
All non-immunised travellers will be put in a 14-day mandatory quarantine at an authorised hotel at their own expense, unless they can get an exem...
DATE: Jun 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Delta variant - also known as the Indian variant - of the coronavirus may have been identified on the island.
The variant, considered to be more virulent than other forms of Covid-19 and currently driving an upsurge in cases in the UK and elsewh...
DATE: Jun 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The death rate on the island in 2020 hit its highest levels for at least 20 years, the home affairs minister said yesterday.
Walter Roban said the number of deaths rose by 31, or 5.8 per cent, to 566 last year.
Mr Roban, speaking in the House of Asse...
DATE: Jun 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Bill Zuill
The number of groups exempted from supervised quarantine rules has been slashed, it was revealed tonight.
A Government spokeswoman said that the seven exempted categories for non-vaccinated arrivals had been cut to three in response to the spread of ...
DATE: Jun 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes