{"id":297089,"date":"2025-07-27T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297089\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:40:14","slug":"covid-19-outbreak-closes-two-wards-at-major-scots-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297089\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 outbreak closes two wards at major Scots hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major hospital has closed the wards to all but essential visitors.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_ari-2.png\" alt=\"Police Scotland were made aware of the incident at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Friday morning.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Aberdeen Royal Infirmary(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Two wards at a major Scots hospital have been shut down following a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"CovidLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid<\/a> outbreak, with health chiefs urging visitors to stay away if they feel unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">NHS Grampian confirmed on Sunday that wards 110 and 308 at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/aberdeen\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Aberdeen Royal InfirmaryLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Aberdeen Royal Infirmary<\/a> are now closed to all but essential visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In a statement on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"social mediaLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, the health board said: \u201cDue to cases of COVID, wards 110 and 308 at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary are closed to all but ESSENTIAL visitors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747398730_254_0_WACOMMUNITYQR3.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/>Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">You&#8217;ll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">All you have to do is <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/BZamc48XMaoEqKkIN7GWxV\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">click here if you&#8217;re on mobile<\/strong><\/a>, select &#8216;Join Community&#8217; and you&#8217;re in!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">If you&#8217;re on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click &#8216;Join Community&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose &#8216;exit group&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">If you\u2019re curious, you can read our <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/privacy-notice\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cNormal visiting applies in all other wards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cIf you are unwell, please do not visit relatives or friends in hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officials stressed that the measures are in place to protect patients, staff and visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">NHS Grampian has been contacted for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The major hospital has closed the wards to all but essential visitors.Aberdeen Royal Infirmary(Image: Getty Images) Two wards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[76822,1433,105,211,2270,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-aberdeen-royal-infirmary","9":"tag-coronavirus","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-nhs","12":"tag-nhs-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114927843705335684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}