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Myrtle Edness may be one of Bermuda’s last people to recall the constant ringing of funeral bells from the 1918 flu pandemic.
Mrs Edness, who turned 106 over the summer, spent 2020 carefully shielded from family in their Warwick home after the global...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Health officials hope to begin vaccinating residents against the coronavirus within the next two weeks, the Government has said.
Bermuda is in line to receive 9,750 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by the end of next week, with the first doses ex...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Seven new cases of coronavirus infection have brought the island’s total cases to 602, it was announced this evening.
Kim Wilson, the health minister, said the results came out of 715 new test results.
Four cases are local with known contacts, and t...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Bermudian nurse on the frontline of the pandemic in Washington DC has urged the public to be wary of misinformation about vaccines.
Davon Adams, who works in a level-one trauma centre, said he recently received the first of two scheduled doses of t...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former senior Anglican priest who was paralysed as a result of a fall in July will not be returning to the island.
Norman Lynas, the former Canon Residentiary at the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton, fell down a set of steps in Bermuda on July 30, a...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
An outbreak of coronavirus infections in the long term care unit at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is under investigation after another patient and staff member tested positive.
Michael Richmond, the chief executive and president of the Bermud...
DATE: Dec 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Ministry of Health tonight confirmed another 14 new cases of Covid-19 from the long weekend’s test results.
A spokeswoman said the new cases were among 2,805 test results that came back to health officials.
A total of six of the cases came in...
DATE: Dec 29, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A charity that was struggling to survive through the summer now has a bright future, thanks to overwhelming community support.
Teen Haven saw costs rise steeply as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, while a general lack of fundraising activity affect...
DATE: Dec 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The island’s Covid-19 death toll hit double figures over the Christmas holiday after a senior died.
The death last Saturday was the tenth related to coronavirus infection.
Health officials also announced that 20 new coronavirus infections had been di...
DATE: Dec 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The island’s Covid-19 death toll moved into double figures after a victim died today.
Health officials also announced that 20 new coronavirus infections had been logged.
The number of deaths related to coronavirus infection now stands at ten.
Kim Wil...
DATE: Dec 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor