{"id":4494,"date":"2024-02-05T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2024-02-05T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:49:13","slug":"mask-mandates-return-to-n-l-hospitals-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-mandates-return-to-n-l-hospitals-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask mandates return to N.L. hospitals today. Here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re heading to a hospital or other health-care facility after 8&nbsp;a.m. on Monday, you will be required to put on a mask.<\/p>\n<p>The province has returned to masking mandates in health-care centres for the first time since May 2023. The move comes amid concerns about respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19, influenza, strep&nbsp;A and other airborne viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial health department has said it\u2019s a temporary measure, and will be re-evaluated on March&nbsp;31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re heading to a hospital or other health-care facility after 8&nbsp;a.m. on Monday, you will be required to put on a mask.<\/p>\n<p>The province has returned to masking mandates in health-care centres for the first time since May 2023. The move comes amid concerns about respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19, influenza, strep&nbsp;A and other airborne viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial health department has said it\u2019s a temporary measure, and will be re-evaluated on March&nbsp;31.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-mandates-return-to-n-l-hospitals-today-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mask mandates return to N.L. hospitals today. Here\u2019s what you need to know<\/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-4494","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\/4494","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=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}