Covid: Hospital visits banned at fourth North East NHS trust
Gateshead hospital bosses become the latest in the region to stop all visiting on adult wards. …
Nicola Bruce, director of operations at Gateshead Health Foundation Trust, said: “The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is now spreading rapidly in the local community and whilst we have been trying to maintain some visiting because we realise how important this is to patients and relatives, unfortunately, the increase in cases does now pose a greater risk of our patients acquiring the virus.