{"id":40388,"date":"2022-12-30T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T14:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=40388"},"modified":"2022-12-30T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T14:58:14","slug":"return-of-the-mask-nhs-hospitals-ban-visitors-and-bring-back-mask-mandates-due-to-wave-of-winter-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/30\/return-of-the-mask-nhs-hospitals-ban-visitors-and-bring-back-mask-mandates-due-to-wave-of-winter-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the mask! NHS hospitals ban visitors and bring back mask mandates due to wave of winter bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21457\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n95-mask-and-covid-19-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n95-mask-and-covid-19-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n95-mask-and-covid-19-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n95-mask-and-covid-19-770x445.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n95-mask-and-covid-19-500x289.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/n95-mask-and-covid-19.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two\u00a0<a id=\"mol-60af06b0-879a-11ed-86a6-d7396ad66acd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS<\/a> hospitals have banned most visitors and instructed patients to wear masks on its wards after being ravaged by a swath of winter bugs as well as Covid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11582865\/NHS-hospital-bans-visitors-brings-mask-mandates-wave-winter-bugs.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Two\u00a0NHS hospitals have banned most visitors and instructed patients to wear masks on its wards after being ravaged by a swath of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bame.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40390,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions\/40390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}