Face masks reinstated in NHS care settings due to rising COVID-19 cases

Healthcare settings that provide NHS care are reinstating face masks due to the rise of COVID-19 cases. NHS England has asked hospitals, dental practices and GP practices throughout the Midlands to return to mandatory mask-wearing, following a ninety-seven per cent increase in hospital COVID-19 cases in acute trust settings. Furthermore, compulsory mask-wearing has been reinstated because of a significant spike in the use of critical care beds.

Nationally, COVID-19 cases have increased by nearly twenty per cent in a week, with one in twenty-five people estimated to have had the virus at the end of June.