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Bermuda’s stockpile of the Covid-19 vaccine has all but run out – with no plan in place to replenish supplies.
Government last night did not respond to questions about how many first doses of the Pfizer vaccine had been administered through yesterday...
DATE: Jun 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
No new coronavirus cases were recorded yesterday, the health ministry said last night.
A total of 1,193 test results came back to the ministry and all were clear.
The number of infections has also dropped and no one is hospitalised with Covid-19.
The...
DATE: Jun 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s Covid-19 risk rating was today downgraded by the US Centres for Disease Control.
Bermuda is now classed as “Level 2 – moderate”, down from “Level 4 – very high” in a travel advisory on the organisation’s website.
The CDC raised Bermuda’s ra...
DATE: Jun 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A total of three new cases of the coronavirus have been identified – all in residents who returned from overseas.
The health ministry said last night the cases all came in last Thursday on JetBlue flights from the US – two infections from New York an...
DATE: Jun 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
People who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 have until today to get their first jab from the remaining stockpiles of the drug.
Supplies of the Pfizer vaccine will pass their use-by date at the end of the month.
With a three-week interval nee...
DATE: Jun 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A series of TV programmes promises to question conventional views of the Covid-19 pandemic and offer alternative ways to tackle the coronavirus.
Beyond the Pandemic features interviews with nine doctors and health professionals who will argue th...
DATE: Jun 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The hours for a walk-in vaccine facility at the Hamilton Princess and Beach Club have been extended.
It will now operate from 3pm to 7pm tonight and tomorrow at the Harbour View Ball Room.
A spokeswoman for the ministry of health said: “We encourage ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Licensed trade professionals yesterday welcomed the lifeline of loosened Covid-19 restrictions – but warned that more needed to be done to ease the plight of a sector hammered by health precautions.
Philip Barnett, the president of the Island Restau...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Legislation to allow on-the-spot fines for breaches of Covid-19 safety rules will be debated in less than two weeks.
The legislation, tabled by Kim Wilson, the health minister, will allow police officers who see an offence to issue public health pena...
DATE: Jun 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A mandatory hotel quarantine at their own expense for non-immunised travellers to Bermuda will come into force on June 13 rather than tomorrow, the Government announced this morning.
The news came after a Supreme Court challenge yesterday where Chief...
DATE: Jun 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell