{"id":488726,"date":"2025-10-10T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488726\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:07:13","slug":"face-masks-reintroduced-at-two-hospitals-in-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488726\/","title":{"rendered":"Face masks reintroduced at two hospitals in Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Face masks have been reintroduced at two hospitals following an increase in patients with respiratory illnesses, including Covid-19.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health bosses said the measure had been introduced at the emergency department at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the clinical decision unit at the Glenfield Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While they are not yet mandatory in all areas of the hospitals, masks will be provided in stations at the main entrances and in outpatient clinics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The measure follows an increase in the number of staff getting sick due to these illnesses, the trust that runs both hospitals said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Face masks have been reintroduced at two hospitals following an increase in patients with respiratory illnesses, including Covid-19.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-488726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115350735669382194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488726","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=488726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}