Covid-19: nurses not wearing masks led to A&E closure, inquiry finds
Exclusive: training session at Hillingdon hospital resulted in 70 staff being quarantined
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Nurses not wearing face masks or staying two metres apart led to an outbreak of Covid-19 that shut an A&E unit after 70 staff at a hospital had to go into quarantine, an inquiry has found.
An investigation by Hillingdon hospital in north-west London has found that a nurse who had coronavirus unwittingly infected 16 others during a training session they all attended on 30 June, in what was described by a doctor as a “super-spreading event”.
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