{"id":234477,"date":"2026-01-15T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234477\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:50:10","slug":"gastro-outbreak-affects-30-staff-at-wellington-hospital-emergency-department-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234477\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastro outbreak affects 30 staff at Wellington Hospital emergency department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>15 Jan, 2026 06:34 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">More than two dozen staff have been affected by a gastro outbreak at Wellington Hospital&#8217;s emergency department. Photo \/ Reece Baker, RNZ<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More than two dozen staff are caught up in a gastro outbreak at Wellington Hospital\u2019s emergency department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Health New Zealand has put precautionary measures in place to try to minimise its spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dedicated infection control teams are also in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The first cases were reported last Friday and a 12-hour<br \/>\n         deep clean was completed the next day.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Health NZ said about 30 people have shown symptoms consistent with the stomach illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 15 Jan, 2026 06:34 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3589,19190,1975,9525,26034,3463,15974,138898,42,2241,3274,130,43,17976,1516,131,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-234477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-3589","tag-affects","tag-at","tag-caught","tag-department","tag-dozen","tag-emergency","tag-gastro","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-hospitals","tag-more","tag-news","tag-outbreak","tag-staff","tag-than","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234477","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=234477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}