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The Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Chief of Staff will be its next chief executive and president, it was announced yesterday.
Michael Richmond will take over the job from Venetta Symonds as she takes early retirement this month after eight years in the po...
DATE: Jul 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A pharmacy employee whose coronavirus test results were called into question at the weekend has been given the all-clear.
The People’s Pharmacy employee had been the subject of social-media rumours that she had breached Covid-19 rules. Yesterday it w...
DATE: Jul 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Transport Control Department would like to remind members of the public of the required Covid-19 procedure for vehicle examinations.
To facilitate physical distancing and streamline the process, whenever possible, TCD encourages all persons to tr...
DATE: Jul 22, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Press Release
The public health response team at the health ministry was thanked yesterday by the Head of the Public Service for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Derrick Binns said the past five months had been “some of the most difficult and challenging tha...
DATE: Jul 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A total of 11 coronavirus test results are still “pending confirmation”, the Government said last night.
The news came as 573 test results came back to the Ministry of Health and all were clear. Bermuda has had 153 cases. Seven of them are active, bu...
DATE: Jul 21, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A pharmacy owner claimed her company had been “wrongly maligned” after a staff member received a seemingly false positive result from a Covid-19 test.
Tamara Richardson also questioned yesterday how the People’s Pharmacy employee was required to take...
DATE: Jul 20, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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MPs have approved an extension to the island’s Covid-19 regulations until September 27.
The legislation included a $25,000 fine and/or six months’ imprisonment for a breach of the requirement for travellers to quarantine as they waited for the result...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Another positive case of Covid-19 has been recorded by the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry said this evening that out of 1,165 test results received on Friday and Saturday, the only positive case was imported on the Delta flight 656 from Atlanta on ...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
People received their Covid-19 results late because of a problem with an external mail server.
The Ministry of Health added that the daily results breakdown from yesterday would be released to the media today, a day later than normal.
A spokeswoman s...
DATE: Jul 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Bermuda’s Covid-19 curfew will be lifted on Monday, the head of the sub-committee responsible for reopening the Bermuda economy said last night.
It was also revealed at the regular coronavirus briefing that two new cases of the disease had been repo...
DATE: Jul 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan