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New rules to ensure safety at grocery stores will take effect this morning.
The Bermuda Chamber of Commerce announced that the Government had implemented safety measures to keep residents safe amid the Covid-19 global health crisis.
It announced fou...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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An action plan to help some of the island’s most vulnerable groups during the coronavirus crisis is under development, it was announced yesterday.
Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said he hoped that a plan to help the homeless could b...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A charity that gives breakfasts to public school pupils is working to ensure that children are fed over the Covid-19 crisis shutdown.
Kelly Hunt, the executive director for the Coalition for the Protection of Children, said yesterday that the organi...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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The Covid-19 pandemic is as big a threat to mental health as it is to physical health, and some in Bermuda are already suffering the effects, specialists said.
Kelly Madeiros, Adriene Berkeley and Grant Farquhar of Solstice Bermuda, an holistic welln...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Hamilton Princess and the Grotto Bay hotels will shut their doors until the coronavirus crisis has ended.
JP Martens, general manager at the Grotto Bay Resort, said yesterday that the Hamilton Parish hotel would close at 5pm today.
Mr Martens add...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
People should get off the streets and stay indoors to limit the spread of Covid-19, the national security minister warned yesterday.
Wayne Caines said he was “concerned” that people continued to carry on normal business after the first cases were con...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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On-island processing of tests for the potentially lethal coronavirus will start this week, the national security minister said yesterday.
Wayne Caines said: “I do not know the exact time.
“I can tell you that we will have the ability within the not...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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Diabetics will still get vital medicines even with a ban on flights and most ships because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Debbie Jones, chairwoman of the Bermuda Diabetes Association, said the charity had also set up tents outside its headquarters in B...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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Jonathan Bell
A spike in domestic abuse could be a side-effect of quarantine conditions for families, a social worker has warned.
Kelly Madeiros, a social worker and director of the Solstice wellness centre in Hamilton, said the increased tensions of quarantine co...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian who campaigned on behalf of his sick son has died at his home in the US after he lost a two-year battle against cancer.
Marvin Brock, 72, an athlete, martial artist and keen follower of Chinese traditional medicine, worked for almost 20 y...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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