Covid-19: Bring back mandatory mask wearing in health settings, say Scottish workers

Decisions taken to end the universal wearing of face masks in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries are placing patients and staff at greater risk of covid infection and need to be reversed, a group of healthcare workers in Scotland who are affected by long covid has said.The Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition, which is participating in the Scottish covid inquiry, described policies to withdraw mandatory mask wearing as flawed and dangerous and akin to playing “Russian roulette” with people’s lives.The coalition has written to the Scottish government criticising guidance published in May that ended the requirement to wear masks.1 It says that covid has not gone away and 300 people die from the effects of the virus every week in the UK.“Any decision that removes protection from the spread of SARS-CoV-2 puts those who are most vulnerable at greatest risk,” says the letter. It adds that healthcare workers are three to four…
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