{"id":1173,"date":"2023-09-06T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2023-09-15T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T13:49:05","slug":"mask-requirements-returning-to-ottawa-hospital-ahead-of-fall-virus-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-requirements-returning-to-ottawa-hospital-ahead-of-fall-virus-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask requirements returning to Ottawa Hospital ahead of fall virus season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Hospital is bringing back some mandatory masking rules this fall.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Wednesday, a hospital spokesperson said that the Ottawa Hospital is updating its masking guidelines ahead of the fall respiratory season, as it anticipates increased spread of influenza, RSV and COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Monday, Sept.&nbsp;11, masking will be required in all clinical areas and waiting rooms, including inpatient units, patient rooms, nursing stations and ambulatory care areas.<\/p>\n<p>These requirements will be in place for the duration of the respiratory virus season, the hospital says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Monday, Sept. 11, masking will be required in all clinical areas and waiting rooms, including inpatient units, patient rooms, nursing stations and ambulatory care areas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-requirements-returning-to-ottawa-hospital-ahead-of-fall-virus-season\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mask requirements returning to Ottawa Hospital ahead of fall virus season<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,25,19,24,119,137,249,14,185,143],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-masks","tag-nosocomial-infections","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-the-ottawa-hospital","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}