Visits stopped and masks back at Northants hospitals after flu and Covid spike

Adult wards will be restricted to compassionate visiting only

Northampton and Kettering General Hospitals are suspending visits and asking people in the hospital to wear a mask, due to a significant increase in COVID, Flu and RSV infections.

Patients and visitors will all be asked to wear masks when in the hospital. Masks will be available for those who need them, but the NHS sites have asked people to bring their own where possible. In September, COVID infections had dropped to as-low-as 16 beds occupied across the two hospitals. However, as of yesterday, that combined figure has risen to 120 beds occupied with Covid across the two sites.

"The current variants are very infectious, and we are seeing numbers rise in both hospitals with some patients being very unwell.

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