Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailAll hospital visitors and outpatients will be required to wear face coverings and all hospital staff will be required to wear surgical masks in England from June 15, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. It came 24 hours after the government confirmed that all Brits would have to wear a mask on public transport. “So today we’re setting out that all hospital visitors and outpatients will need to wear face coverings. “And all hospital staff will be required to wear type 1 or 2 surgical masks. “You don’t have that option in quite the same way on public transport so it’s clearly a different environment.

Source: Daily Mirror June 05, 2020 16:20 UTC