NEW YORK — At one of the few chain pharmacies still open in the South Bronx — a Rite Aid on Southern Boulevard — just about everything except for the greeting cards is behind plexiglass barriers and sealed with a lock. The Kit Kats. The Pringles. The soda. The dog toys. Yet near a subway station on that same bustling shopping street, four mom-and-pop pharmacies are doing brisk business. Their unlocked shelves are filled with merchandise. The pharmacist and technicians are on the phones, answerin
Some small independent pharmacies in the city are benefiting from a decline in chain stores. But theft and low reimbursement rates are still making life hard.
Bermuda recorded its first death linked to Covid-19 in three months, it was announced last night.
Health officials said the island’s single fatality brought the total death toll of the pandemic to 149.