{"id":624971,"date":"2025-12-10T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624971\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:03:15","slug":"aberdeenshire-schools-reduce-hours-over-rising-flu-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624971\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeenshire schools reduce hours over rising flu cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week Scotland&#8217;s health secretary warned that flu cases were expected to spike over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil Gray said rates were following a similar trend to last year after Public Health Scotland (PHS) figures showed that cases had doubled in the week ending 30 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gray urged those eligible for a vaccine to take up the offer and encouraged anyone who can afford a private vaccine to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hospitals in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Western Isles have asked staff and visitors to wear face masks at all times when on wards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The health boards said it was a precautionary measure to reduce the risk of infection and protect patients and visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 700 people were hospitalised because of the illness between 24-30 November, according to PHS&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealthscotland.scot\/publications\/viral-respiratory-diseases-in-scotland-surveillance-report\/viral-respiratory-diseases-in-scotland-surveillance-report-4-december-2025\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viral respiratory diseases surveillance report, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week Scotland&#8217;s health secretary warned that flu cases were expected to spike over the coming weeks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-624971","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\/115697536543056629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624971","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=624971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}