Staff Covid infection rates have trebled at Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General hospitals.
Two Gloucestershire Hospitals are to reintroduce masks for visitors after a rise in the number of staff and patients with Covid-19.
Kerry Holden, from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust, said masks would help prevent "unnecessary sickness".Ms Holden, the trust's deputy director of infection prevention and control, said preventing staff sickness was "definitely one of the main drivers" for reintroducing the mask rules.
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