{"id":4492,"date":"2024-02-01T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2024-02-04T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T04:04:55","slug":"n-l-health-care-facilities-reviving-mask-mandate-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/n-l-health-care-facilities-reviving-mask-mandate-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"N.L. health-care facilities reviving mask mandate, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mandatory masking is returning to all areas where clinical care is provided in health facilities in Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Tom Osborne told CBC News Thursday the recommendation was made by the Infection Prevention And Control team at N.L. Health Services, aiming to protect people inside the hospital and those entering the facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department has spoken with public health here as well. They support IPAC\u2019s recommendation, you know, based on the spread of COVID and epidemiology within the community,\u201d Osborne said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis recommendation was not from government or myself as minister, but we understand the recommendation and we understand the need for the recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mandate begins on Monday at 8&nbsp;a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandatory masking is returning to all areas where clinical care is provided in health facilities in Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Tom Osborne told CBC News Thursday the recommendation was made by the Infection Prevention And Control team at N.L. Health Services, aiming to protect people inside the hospital and those entering the facilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/n-l-health-care-facilities-reviving-mask-mandate-says-minister\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">N.L. health-care facilities reviving mask mandate, says minister<\/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":[96,18,23,19,360,14,143],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-masks","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}