{"id":234242,"date":"2026-01-15T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234242\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:50:09","slug":"gastro-outbreak-affects-30-staff-at-wellington-hospital-emergency-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234242\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastro outbreak affects 30 staff at Wellington Hospital emergency department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4KLTOS8_240807_Wellington_Hospital_3_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"646\" alt=\"Wellington Hospital Emergency Department\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nWellington Hospital&#8217;s emergency department.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen staff are caught up in a gastro outbreak at Wellington Hospital&#8217;s emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>Health New Zealand has put precautionary measures in place to try minimise its spread.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated infection control teams are also in place.<\/p>\n<p>The first cases were reported last Friday and a 12 hour long deep clean was completed the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Health New Zealand said about 30 people have shown symptoms consistent with the stomach illness.<\/p>\n<p>It said sick leave is being managed, and patient care is continuing as normal.<\/p>\n<p>There was no indication of it spreading further through the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wellington Hospital&#8217;s emergency department. Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER More than two dozen staff are caught up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-234242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}