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The Chief Medical Officer expected to spend the past few months completing projects before she settled into retirement after a career in public health that spanned almost three decades.
But Cheryl Peek-Ball’s final stretch in the job was instead cons...
DATE: Aug 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A Hamilton café apologised today for causing concern after it told customers that a diner tested positive for the coronavirus.
Café Acoreano, on Washington Street, clarified that the Ministry of Health was carrying out contact tracing to determine wh...
DATE: Aug 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
An expanded government laboratory will be set up at Bermuda College to help train scientists in an “amazing” achievement for the island, the Premier said.
David Burt revealed that Carika Weldon, a geneticist, will move back home from Britain to set u...
DATE: Aug 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A fourth business has been exposed to Covid-19, it was revealed yesterday.
The Devil’s Isle restaurant was told a breakfast customer on Monday morning later tested positive for the coronavirus.
Now two members of staff at the Hamilton restaurant who...
DATE: Aug 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A restaurant in Hamilton has closed its doors on a temporary basis after a tourist who ate there twice tested positive for the coronavirus.
Now The Terrace on Front Street has decided to cease operations until all 18 staff have clear tests for the co...
DATE: Aug 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
No new cases of Covid-19 were recorded yesterday.
The Ministry of Health said 636 test results were received and none were positive.
A spokeswoman for the ministry said: “Recent travellers are reminded that you must remain in quarantine until you r...
DATE: Aug 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A tourist who has tested positive for Covid-19 sparked a major tracing operation after it was learnt she spent time on a charter boat, visited a gym and dined at a restaurant.
The visitor attended an event on the catamaran Zara, went to a Hamilton gy...
DATE: Aug 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda has been upgraded to a Level 2 travel health advisory notice by the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Covid-19 risk in Bermuda is now listed as “moderate”.
But the CDC recommended that older people, those with unde...
DATE: Aug 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Contact tracing was under way last night for four new cases of Covid-19, the health ministry said.
Three cases are known to have come in from overseas and the source of the fourth is under investigation.
All four are in isolation.
A ministry spokeswo...
DATE: Aug 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An increase in stress and executive burnout because of the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked the development of a series of therapeutic services by a new consortium of medical specialists.
Submerge, a programme introduced by Kindred, Solstice and Fountai...
DATE: Aug 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan