{"id":4655,"date":"2024-02-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:54:22","slug":"nova-scotia-health-to-lift-covid-19-immunization-requirement-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nova-scotia-health-to-lift-covid-19-immunization-requirement-for-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Health to lift COVID-19 immunization requirement for employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health are set to lift a requirement for employees, new hires and on-site medical staff to submit proof of primary series COVID-19 immunization beginning Feb.&nbsp;26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to CBC News on Wednesday night, a spokesperson for Nova Scotia Health said the decision was made \u201cin response to evolving evidence regarding COVID-19, Omicron sub-variants, protection from vaccine and a review of vaccination policies across other jurisdictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NSH confirmed the change in policy after a letter to an employee was posted on social media earlier in the day. The letter advises the employee, on unpaid leave for not meeting the COVID-19 immunization requirements, they could return to work as of Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health are set to lift a requirement for employees, new hires and on-site medical staff to submit proof of primary series COVID-19 immunization beginning Feb.&nbsp;26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to CBC News on Wednesday night, a spokesperson for Nova Scotia Health said the decision was made \u201cin response to evolving evidence regarding COVID-19, Omicron sub-variants, protection from vaccine and a review of vaccination policies across other jurisdictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NSH confirmed the change in policy after a letter to an employee was posted on social media earlier in the day. The letter advises the employee, on unpaid leave for not meeting the COVID-19 immunization requirements, they could return to work as of Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nova-scotia-health-to-lift-covid-19-immunization-requirement-for-employees\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nova Scotia Health to lift COVID-19 immunization requirement for employees<\/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":[96,18,218,308,309,14,15],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nova-scotia-health","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","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=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}