Mary Wilson
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PUBLISHED: 10:59 EDT, 5 October 2022 | UPDATED: 10:59 EDT, 5 October 2022
By EMILY CRAIG
At least five NHS trusts in England have brought back mask requirements due to Covid's resurgence, MailOnline can reveal.
Sites in Suffolk, Essex and Gloucestershire now require all visitors to wear face coverings when in their hospitals. Some are also asking patients to wear masks and reimposing social distancing guidelines, in scenes reminiscent of the earliest days of the pandemic.
Although coverings have been sentenced to history in daily life, trust bosses have argued that hospitals are 'not the same as a supermarket or a restaurant'.
Patients on wards already tend to be very unwell, meaning they are particularly vulnerable to the brutal effects of Covid and other respiratory infections.
Stricter rules — including visitor bans — could be brought in over the coming weeks if virus rates and admissions continue to trend upwards, health chiefs have hinted.
Some academics have already called for a widespread return of face masks in public settings, in order to thwart the spread of the virus this winter. But the Government has made no hint that a return of pandemic curbs are on the horizon, even in the face of spiralling cases. ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...ts-brought-mandatory-face-covering-rules.html
By EMILY CRAIG
At least five NHS trusts in England have brought back mask requirements due to Covid's resurgence, MailOnline can reveal.
Sites in Suffolk, Essex and Gloucestershire now require all visitors to wear face coverings when in their hospitals. Some are also asking patients to wear masks and reimposing social distancing guidelines, in scenes reminiscent of the earliest days of the pandemic.
Although coverings have been sentenced to history in daily life, trust bosses have argued that hospitals are 'not the same as a supermarket or a restaurant'.
Patients on wards already tend to be very unwell, meaning they are particularly vulnerable to the brutal effects of Covid and other respiratory infections.
Stricter rules — including visitor bans — could be brought in over the coming weeks if virus rates and admissions continue to trend upwards, health chiefs have hinted.
Some academics have already called for a widespread return of face masks in public settings, in order to thwart the spread of the virus this winter. But the Government has made no hint that a return of pandemic curbs are on the horizon, even in the face of spiralling cases. ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...ts-brought-mandatory-face-covering-rules.html