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The Department of Education will run a series of online town hall meetings next week to teach parents about the coronavirus saliva test programme.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said the programme was designed to help control the spread of...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Law student Aisling Gorman was preparing for the last of her examinations of the Fall term when she started to experience the first symptoms of Covid-19. Months later, she is still feeling the effects of its related ailment, Long Covid.
Not everyone ...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
A disabilities campaigner has teamed up with a specialist security business and the Government to offer GPS devices at a discount for seniors with memory problems and people with disabilities.
LaKiesha Wolffe, of the Disability Centre of Bermuda, Inv...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Just three new cases of the coronavirus were logged yesterday.
The positive results were among 1,204 test results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.2 per cent.
The news came as Ayo Oyinloye, the chief medical officer, reveal...
DATE: May 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda will move to phase 2 of its road map to normality from Sunday, the health minister said this evening.
Kim Wilson said Bermuda had achieved the targets set out by the Premier in his national address and therefore could reduce restrictions.
F...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s triathlon star has appealed to the public to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Flora Duffy, a two-time world champion and Olympian, posted a photograph of herself on social media after she got the first of the double shot Pfizer vaccine.
She...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A lawyer has backed plans to quarantine arrivals without a Covid-19 vaccination at a special Government centre.
Mark Diel said that public safety considerations had to override personal freedom in a crisis.
Mr Diel, of law firm Marshall, Diel & Myers...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Just two coronavirus cases were logged yesterday, health officials revealed tonight.
The infections were among 1,014 results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.2 per cent.
Both cases were recorded as on-island transmissions w...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
American television network NBC has highlighted the pandemic perils of overseas travel after one of its producers was forced to quarantine in Bermuda.
Mimi Segal, an NBC10Boston producer, said that she and her husband planned a break on the island af...
DATE: May 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A total of five new coronavirus cases have been logged, the health ministry said tonight.
The cases were among 447 test results that came back to health officials today – a positivity rate of 1.1 per cent.
The five cases were all recorded as on-islan...
DATE: May 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell