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People visiting patients in Dumfries and Galloway hospitals must test negative for coronavirus before arriving

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People visiting friends or family in hospital must have tested negative for Covid-19 before arriving.The new guideline has been introduced by the Scottish Government in response to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.The region’s NHS has warned that hospital inpatients are among the most vulnerable to the disease.And the new guidelines call for all visitors to have completed a lateral flow test and obtained a negative result before they arrive.In addition, patients are now limited to two visitors each at a time.And if the patient is on a ward where there is already an outbreak of Covid, only essential visitors, who have tested negative, will be allowed access.Mark Kelly, interim director of nursing at NHS Dumfries and

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