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Feb 2022
Harrogate and Ripon hospitals maintain visitor restrictions due to high covid rates
The NHS trust that runs hospitals in Harrogate and Ripon is to maintain visitor restrictions while coronavirus case rates remain high.
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust imposed restrictions at Harrogate District Hospital and Ripon Community Hospital on December 23 amid concerns about the Omicron variant.
It means visitors are only allowed for patients on end of life care, patients with a learning disability or severe cognitive impairment such as dementia. Parents or carers of children and birthing partners are also permitted.
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At the time, the hospital said it would review the restrictions regularly and relax them "at the earliest opportunity".
However, although the government removed all Plan B measures a week ago, the trust has yet to say when regular visits will resume.
A spokesperson for the trust said today:
Another 339 covid infections were recorded in the Harrogate district yesterday, bringing the seven-day average to 1,305 cases per 100,000 people — the highest in North Yorkshire and considerably above the England rate of 1,048.
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