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About 600 people got their first coronavirus jab after too much vaccine was thawed out, health officials revealed tonight.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said officials were looking at why the extra doses were taken out of deep freeze.
She added: “...
DATE: Mar 05, 2021
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
More than $30 million was spent in the battle against the coronavirus in the first seven months after its arrival last March, it was revealed today.
The news came in a report issued by Heather Thomas, the Auditor-General, after an examination of the...
DATE: Mar 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
More than half of residents over the age of 80 have received a Covid-19 vaccination, the health minister announced yesterday.
Kim Wilson, the Minister of Health, said in the House of Assembly that 23,939 vaccinations have been performed up to and inc...
DATE: Mar 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Three more coronavirus cases were recorded today, which brought the number of active cases up to 22.
All the cases classified as coming in from overseas and were among 346 results that came back to health officials.
The positive tests were all passen...
DATE: Mar 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Stricter guidelines for applications to hold events with more than 25 people will not be imposed despite regulation breaches, the national security minister said yesterday.
Renee Ming said that ministry officials would instead scrutinise applications...
DATE: Mar 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A fresh delivery of the Covid-19 vaccines will arrive from the UK tonight.
Government House confirmed that 10,530 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, along with essential equipment, will be brought in on the British Airways flight.
The delivery will bring t...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda yesterday recorded another five Covid-19 cases, bringing the number of active cases to 21.
All of the new cases, which came from a batch of 479 test results, were classified as local transmission through contact with known cases.
The results ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The island’s two vaccination centres became scenes of “organised chaos” yesterday afternoon after scores of people responded to a plea for residents to get the jab at short notice.
Government issued a public appeal saying it had a surplus of the vac...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A restaurateur has welcomed moves by Government to encourage employees to return to the workplace.
But Phillip Barnett of the Island Restaurant Group said the industry still needed more “sustained relief” in order to recover from “significant losses”...
DATE: Mar 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A curfew is to be reintroduced after a spike in coronavirus cases, the health minister announced last night.
Kim Wilson said the move was made after the island suffered an “emerging outbreak” of Covid-19 which may be be linked to the virulent UK stra...
DATE: Mar 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan