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The Bermuda Hospitals Board surgery leader was today announced as the new Chief of Staff.
Wesley Miller will take up the position next month after it was left vacant by Michael Richmond, who became BHB chief executive and president earlier this year....
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Customers were warned about longer waiting times when a bank changes its hours temporarily from next week after a rise in Covid-19 transmissions on the island.
Butterfield Bank’s Reid Street, St George's and Somerset locations will be open to custome...
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The number of active cases of coronavirus hit 221 yesterday, more than double the number a week earlier, Government figures revealed last night.
Eighteen more people tested positive for Covid-19, the health ministry said, while five recovered. Just ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The leader of a domestic violence support agency has been named among other campaigners from around the world in a list of role models working to end attacks on women.
Laurie Shiell, the executive director of Centre Against Abuse, was one of 16 peopl...
DATE: Dec 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Eighteen people have tested positive for Covid-19, out of 1,208 results since the Government’s last update, it was revealed tonight.
Two of the new cases were imported, from travellers who tested positive on arrival.
Both came on Delta flights from A...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Buses are to resume daily service tomorrow, according to the Department of Public Transportation.
It followed the suspension of service on Friday after an employee in the DPT tested positive for the coronavirus.
The announcement today came after an a...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Younger pupils at Somersfield Academy switched to remote learning today after a possible exposure at the school to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus.
They joined secondary students who moved to virtual classes at the beginning of this w...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An insurance company has closed its doors to walk-in customers after two staff members tested positive for the coronavirus.
CG Insurance’s Reid Street office will be shut until December 29.
A spokeswoman said: “It has come to our attention that two C...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A crew member from a British Airways flight was among 11 new cases of Covid-19 reported last night by the Ministry of Health.
The BA crew member was one of three cases that came in from overseas.
The other two were residents, one of whom arrived on ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new strain of the coronavirus linked to increases in Covid-19 has appeared in Britain.
But Carika Weldon, a Bermudian genetics researcher on the front line of the island’s fight against Covid-19, said it was unlikely to be linked with the recent su...
DATE: Dec 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell