A spokesperson for The University of North Midlands NHS Trust said as of 31 June, there were 103 inpatients with Covid
Since Monday patients, visitors and staff have been required to wear masks in clinical areas unless exempt at Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital, Stafford. The trust's risk assessment process was triggered last week due to having 108 inpatients with the virus. It added: "Entrances to all wards and clinical areas will have masks and hand gel available for staff, patients and visitors to wear."Anne Marie Riley, chief nurse at Royal Stoke, told BBC Radio Stoke that while masks have been reintroduced, visitors have not been restricted as in line with previous Covid rulings."It hasn't ever gone away completely and we have a risk assessment process which was triggered for us last week.