{"id":398997,"date":"2026-01-30T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398997\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:53:20","slug":"more-people-attending-jersey-hospital-with-flu-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398997\/","title":{"rendered":"More people attending Jersey hospital with flu symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;I can confirm that we are experiencing a small increase in the number of covid cases in the ward,&#8221; Chofle said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s an increase in a number of people presenting in the emergency department with flu-like symptoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have put some infection control measures in our wards, and we now ask all our staff, visitors and patients to wear masks in the wards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chofle said patients would be offered masks when they visited the department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very important for our community and islanders to understand we need to keep our hospital functioning,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of the things we are trying to do is to encourage islanders to avoid coming to hospital if you have flu-like symptoms like a cough, fevers, sore throat, loss of taste and smell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said if islanders felt unwell not to visit the hospital unless they had to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I can confirm that we are experiencing a small increase in the number of covid cases in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}