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A specialist medical centre is to offer classes for patients who suffer from chronic kidney disease.
Bermuda Home Dialysis Services has launched its chronic kidney disease programme, which will start “in the near future” after quarantine measures hav...
DATE: Mar 28, 2020
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Health
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Bermuda recorded five more cases of Covid-19 today, taking the total on the island to 22.
David Burt said that three of the new positive cases were imported, and the other two had close contact with a confirmed case.
The Premier said that 36 test res...
DATE: Mar 28, 2020
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Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
A charitable cleaning crew pitched in to collect trash in the west end while collection services were down.
But Richard Walker-Talbot, a driver with Talbot Enterprises, said that his family company could only do so much and needed help from the publi...
DATE: Mar 28, 2020
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Health
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The number of Covid-19 cases has more than doubled to 15, the Premier announced last night.
David Burt said that eight more people had tested positive for coronavirus on top of the seven already detected.
He added the news was “alarming” but “not u...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020
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Health
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Bermuda’s first woman premier asked social-media users yesterday to be responsible online after a false claim that she should have been in self-quarantine as part of the battle against the coronavirus.
Dame Pamela Gordon-Banks said she feared for the...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A handful of American citizens caught a ride home to the United States last night after two flights brought in Bermudian residents and students stranded in the US by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bermuda Business Development Agency said it had teamed...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A domestic violence support agency said yesterday that demand had jumped since the island started mandatory quarantines in a bid to beat the coronavirus pandemic.
Laurie Shiell, the executive director of the Centre Against Abuse, said the organisatio...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A charity chairwoman and veteran child welfare campaigner said that the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of how much work was still needed to help struggling families.
Sheelagh Cooper added that a transitional living centre, expecte...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Government could build or convert buildings to field hospitals to deal with the Covid-19 crisis if needed, the Ministry of Health has said.
A spokeswoman for the health ministry added: “Nothing is being ruled out.”
The spokeswoman said that the G...
DATE: Mar 27, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
More than 1,000 people tuned in to a live DJ set as would-be clubgoers hunkered down at home for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.
DJ iBreeze attracted listeners from all over the island and further afield for his “private party” on Instagram o...
DATE: Mar 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter