{"id":1428,"date":"2023-09-13T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2023-09-13T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:20:27","slug":"does-covid-19-spread-in-a-hospital-mean-theres-an-outbreak-not-anymore-says-b-c-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/does-covid-19-spread-in-a-hospital-mean-theres-an-outbreak-not-anymore-says-b-c-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Does COVID-19 spread in a hospital mean there\u2019s an outbreak? Not anymore, says B.C. health ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several B.C. hospitals and long term care facilities have seen a spike in COVID-19 cases recently according to the provincial health ministry, but these cases are not being named or reported publicly.<\/p>\n<p>In a response to questions from CBC about COVID-19 outbreak declarations at acute care and long-term care facilities, the B.C. ministry of health confirmed that in some cases an outbreak is no longer reported even when there is a spike in cases due to spread at the hospital or care home.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, &#8220;enhanced measures&#8221; are put in place without alerting the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several B.C. hospitals and long term care facilities have seen a spike in COVID-19 cases recently according to the provincial health ministry, but these cases are not being named or reported publicly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/does-covid-19-spread-in-a-hospital-mean-theres-an-outbreak-not-anymore-says-b-c-health-ministry\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does COVID-19 spread in a hospital mean there\u2019s an outbreak? Not anymore, says B.C. health ministry<\/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":[83,96,18,25,23,24,14],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-hospitals","tag-nosocomial-infections","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","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=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}