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One of Bermuda’s most popular eateries was forced to close for the day yesterday after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19.
The Swizzle Inn on Blue Hole Hill, Hamilton Parish was shut in order for the property to be deep-cleaned and sanitised...
DATE: Jun 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
People looking to put on functions for more than 100 guests are being asked not to submit applications until next Monday, June 28.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport, which has taken over responsibility for granting exemptions...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Travelling residents are still being blocked from boarding flights to Bermuda because travel regulations listed on Government’s website have not been updated, it has been revealed.
Last Friday, Government jettisoned a controversial directive groundin...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The deadline for young people to sign up for a volunteer programme at the Government’s Covid-19 testing laboratory is fast approaching, a spokeswoman said today.
The Molecular Diagnostics Lab will accept applications for its Summer Student Volunteer ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Doctors were forced to cancel hundreds of non-emergency operations because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases.
Wesley Miller, the chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, said that elective surgery had to be postponed between March and Ma...
DATE: Jun 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
There were two new coronavirus results recorded yesterday, the health ministry said tonight.
The positives were among 5,913 test results that came back to health officials – a positivity rate of 0.03 per cent.
The tests, taken between last Thursday a...
DATE: Jun 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A restaurant owner with 31 years’ experience in the industry predicted it would take several years to regain ground lost in the Covid-19 crisis.
Maz Shabdeen, who was forced to close his Dockyard restaurant early in the crisis, warned that even with ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermudians have been unable to board flights to the island because of problems with Covid-19 travel authorisation, the Government said yesterday.
A Government spokeswoman said that “no Bermudian will be denied the ability to return home” and that ai...
DATE: Jun 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Strict new quarantine rules that came into force were today outlined by the national security ministry.
All non-immunised travellers will be put in a 14-day mandatory quarantine at an authorised hotel at their own expense, unless they can get an exem...
DATE: Jun 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Delta variant - also known as the Indian variant - of the coronavirus may have been identified on the island.
The variant, considered to be more virulent than other forms of Covid-19 and currently driving an upsurge in cases in the UK and elsewh...
DATE: Jun 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan