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Bermuda has recorded its sixth Covid-19 related death, the Premier confirmed this evening.
The victim was understood to be a resident at the Westmeath Residential and Nursing Home, where 11 residents and two staff members have previously been confirm...
DATE: Apr 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
People on two-week quarantine in Government centres will have to spend 14 extra days in isolation if they test positive for the coronavirus.
The order, which came into force on Tuesday, said: “A person placed in quarantine under the Quarantine (Inco...
DATE: Apr 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Almost $30,000 worth of mobile phone services has been donated to about 200 soldiers called up to battle the spread of Covid-19.
Digicel and One Communications explained the donations were made to Royal Bermuda Regiment troops to show appreciation of...
DATE: Apr 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The head of the Bermuda Medical Doctors Association has thanked the private sector for its support during the Covid-19 crisis.
Henry Dowling, the president of the BMDA, noted that the sector had helped out when the Government and the Bermuda Hospital...
DATE: Apr 26, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The worried daughter of a resident in a care home at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak last night questioned why strict social-distancing was enforced only after a second staff member tested positive for the disease last week.
The woman said she spok...
DATE: Apr 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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People who attend the hospital’s emergency department are not tested for the coronavirus, the Chief of Emergency has said.
Chikezie Dean Okereke outlined Bermuda Hospitals Board procedures after a family questioned why an elderly relative treated in ...
DATE: Apr 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Essential workers were checked for Covid-19 yesterday after a drive-through test centre was launched.
However, David Burt, the Premier, said that sample collection at the multi-lane site in St David’s started late after some teething troubles.
He exp...
DATE: Apr 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
More than 3,000 people could be hospitalised as a result of Covid-19, with 981 of them requiring critical care, a worst-case scenario released by the Bermuda Government warned yesterday.
The figure of 3,096 would equate to a peak of 78 hospital admis...
DATE: Apr 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
No new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed yesterday, the Government said last night.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health reported that 61 test results had come back and all were clear. The total number of cases remains at 99, with five deaths.
Th...
DATE: Apr 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The scale of testing for Covid-19 was higher yesterday in Bermuda than any Caribbean country, according to data published online.
Figures on the Worldometer website showed that the island ranked above Aruba and the Cayman Islands when comparing the n...
DATE: Apr 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter