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A surge in flu cases at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has forced the Lamb Foggo Urgent Care Centre to extend restricted opening hours. The Bermuda Hospitals Board said it had focused resources on the hospital’s Emergency Department, where sta...

Bermuda health experts are in close contact with an international body about the deadly coronavirus, the Government confirmed yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health said: “The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit is in constant liaison wi...

No cases of the coronavirus have been reported in Bermuda, the Minister of Health confirmed this morning. Kim Wilson told the House of Assembly the Ministry’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit is in regular conversation with international bodies and...

Air arrivals are to be screened at the airport as a killer virus from China continued to spread, it was announced yesterday. The screening will include questions on areas travelled through in the previous 21 days and if the arrival had suffered any s...

People were warned to avoid the hospital’s emergency room unless it was a genuine health crisis as the island prepared itself for potential cases of a killer virus. Michael Ashton, the Bermuda Hospitals Board chief of medicine and infectious disease...

Bermuda braced itself yesterday for a potential public health emergency over a killer virus. The Ministry of Health said it had raised the threat level from the coronavirus from “guarded” to “elevated” and that its epidemiology and surveillance unit ...

The husband of a young mother who had terminal cancer diagnosed days after their son was born won $1.9 million in damages yesterday for medical negligence from the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun ruled that Kemar Maybury deserv...

Health authorities are monitoring the risk of a potential killer virus reaching Bermuda. The new strain of coronavirus, discovered in China, made headlines after it was reported in other Asian countries and the United States. A spokeswoman for the Mi...

A US organisation dedicated to fighting cancer is to visit Bermuda to boost a fundraiser to battle the disease. The American Cancer Society will send members of their Global Relay for Life team to Bermuda this week to support the Bermuda Cancer and H...

Celeste DeShields brought a giant quilt inscribed “For All God’s Children” at a community day over the weekend in support of the island’s HIV charity. Ms DeShields, 70, who has been living with HIV since 1993, said the message was: “It can happen to...

A warning was issued yesterday over romaine lettuce after an E. coli outbreak in the United States. The Department of Health said anyone who has recently bought romaine lettuce originating from the area of Salinas, California, should discard it immed...

Dear Sir, The following was addressed to Debbie Barboza, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease nurse educator at the Bermuda Hospitals Board. I have been an asthma sufferer for 75 years, with asthma diagnosed at the age of 5. It has made a...