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Just four people tested positive for the coronavirus today, it was revealed last night.
The cases were among 706 test results that came back to health officials yesterday – a positive rate of 0.6 per cent.
One of the new cases was classified as on-is...
DATE: May 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Herd immunity against Covid-19 will not be reached for several months unless vaccine rates increase, the Opposition warned yesterday.
Michael Dunkley, the One Bermuda Alliance’ shadow health minister, said the Government needed a new approach to enco...
DATE: May 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Bermuda Idol winner who was rushed to the US for life-saving surgery has developed a rare heart condition, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Latosha Codrington had a heart attack last month, and later developed a blood clot in an artery.
She was taken...
DATE: May 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Health officials recorded 17 new coronavirus infections today.
The positives were among 3,423 test results that came back to health officials yesterday - a positivity rate of 0.5 per cent.
Nine cases are under investigation because they were among pe...
DATE: May 11, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The sister of a well known taxi driver who died of complications after he developed Covid-19 yesterday appealed to the public to ignore bogus claims about the coronavirus.
Sharon Ward said: “If you don’t read or hear about Covid in the mainstream me...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A total of 88 per cent of people admitted to hospital with Covid-19 over the last few weeks were not vaccinated, the Bermuda Hospitals Board revealed today.
The BHB said 81 patients treated between March 14 to May 1 had not had the vaccine, 10, or 11...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The island’s pandemic death toll has risen to 31, it was revealed at the weekend.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said it was with “a heavy heart” that she announced the latest victim.
Ms Wilson added: “Our hearts and prayers go out to the loved one...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Mothers’ Day flowers were on Saturday handed out at a vaccination centre by top politicians.
David Burt, the Premier, Walter Roban, the home affairs minister and Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister gave the flowers away at the mobile vaccination c...
DATE: May 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A strict quarantine regime for unvaccinated arrivals imposed as part of the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic are “oppressive and trample on Bermudians’ constitutional rights”, a senior British lawyer said today.
Courtenay Griffiths, a Queen’s Cou...
DATE: May 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda has failed to make a “green list” of countries with minimum Covid-19 restrictions for travel to Britain, it was revealed yesterday.
The island is on the “amber list” – which means travellers to the UK will still have to undergo a 10 day quara...
DATE: May 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan