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Bermuda’s hospitals are surviving from pay cheque to pay cheque, with no financial reserves to cover unexpected emergency costs.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board has even had to arrange a bank overdraft as a back-up should it need extra cash in an unfore...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A charity for autistic children yesterday announced a host of events to highlight April as Autism Awareness Month.
Tomorrow’s Voices plans to hold five fundraisers and campaign events, some of them online, from Friday and running into April.
Thea Fur...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Another 40 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed last night after the latest round of testing.
The Ministry of Health announced that the new cases were found among 1,197 new test results.
Nine of the new cases were imported, while 21 were the result of lo...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Ministry of Education will not yet make public the number of submissions it received in the consultation on education reform.
A ministry spokeswoman said that such information will only be released when a report currently being compiled that wil...
DATE: Mar 25, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Increased restrictions on visitors will be introduced at the island’s hospitals because of the recent surge of the UK variation of Covid-19.
The Bermuda Hospitals Board said a raft of restrictions will come into effect at both King Edward VII Memoria...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A second potential Covid-19 case has been identified at Elliot Primary School and a case has been identified at Bermuda High School.
It comes as a new case was reported at Warwick Academy where the secondary department will go into remote learning to...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Part of the zoo area at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo has been closed to the public to protect certain animals that are susceptible to corona viruses.
Dr Ian Walker, Principal Curator, said: “Unfortunately, BAMZ still faces the same concerns...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Bermuda could reach herd immunity by June 1, the Premier said last night.
David Burt predicted that if the present rate of vaccination continued, 50 per cent of the eligible population would have their second dose before May 1.
He said: “We can rea...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A guest house where police broke up a party in breach Covid-19 regulations this month has been accused by tenants of operating without a hotel licence.
The family of seven who lived at Brightside in Flatts said they were ordered to leave after the gu...
DATE: Mar 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The public is being asked to avoid visiting police stations “unless absolutely necessary” due to the increase in Covid-19 cases.
Martin Weekes, Assistant Commissioner of Police, said: “Exceptions include victims of abuse attending a police station to...
DATE: Mar 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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