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The island’s first child case of Covid-19 was logged yesterday after a ten-year-old tested positive for the coronavirus.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the youngster was one of two positive cases of the illness out of 2,140 test results that h...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
More than 800 additional tests revealed no additional cases of Covid-19, the Ministry of Health announced today.
A spokeswoman said that 823 test results were received by the Ministry today and none were positive.
The total number of cases recorded i...
DATE: Sep 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The number of medical scans carried out every year by individual doctors does not have to be made public by health service regulators, the Information Commissioner has decided.
Gitanjali Gutierrez said the Bermuda Health Council was right to refuse t...
DATE: Sep 08, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The island recorded one more Covid-19 case yesterday.
The victim was a visitor, who arrived on the Delta flight from Atlanta on Thursday.
A spokeswoman said contact tracing was under way.
The case was among 663 test results that came back to public h...
DATE: Sep 05, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The Bermuda Health Council recently conducted a pilot assessment of five health businesses, as part of the Premier Level of the Provider Advantage Programme (PrAP). The health businesses assessed included dental, medical, dietetic, dialysis and home ...
DATE: Sep 04, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
Bermuda’s coronavirus test regime ranks top in the Americas and seventh worldwide per head of population, it was revealed last night.
Kim Wilson, the health minister said the island had carried out nearly 46,000 tests during the pandemic.
She was spe...
DATE: Sep 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A visitor who arrived from Britain tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend.
It was the single positive among 919 test results received by the Ministry of Health on Saturday.
The person who tested positive arrived on the British Airways f...
DATE: Aug 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Bermuda has earned a global stamp of approval for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and a high level of health and safety protocols across its tourism industry.
The World Travel & Tourism Council has designated Bermuda a “Safe Travels” destinatio...
DATE: Aug 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
There were no new cases of the coronavirus in 769 test results received by the Ministry of Health today.
Bermuda has had 168 confirmed cases and 151 people have recovered.
Eight people who tested positive for the coronavirus are “active cases” but ar...
DATE: Aug 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A single case of the coronavirus was detected among 1,493 test results that came back to health officials between Sunday and yesterday.
A health ministry spokeswoman said: “The latest positive case is classified as local transmission as the new posit...
DATE: Aug 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter