{"id":4970,"date":"2024-03-15T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2024-04-14T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T16:56:31","slug":"mask-mandate-reinstated-in-some-quebec-health-facilities-following-rise-in-measles-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-mandate-reinstated-in-some-quebec-health-facilities-following-rise-in-measles-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask mandate reinstated in some Quebec health facilities following rise in measles cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data shows Quebec with 21&nbsp;measles cases as of Friday 2&nbsp;p.m., including 15 in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CIUSSS de l\u2019Est, health centres in the eastern part of the island have responded by reinstating mask mandates and launching a vaccination campaign in elementary schools.<\/p>\n<p>Notre-Dame and Sainte-Justine Hospitals are also among those requiring patients to wear masks to stop the spread. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it\u2019s necessary, especially to protect those who are more vulnerable,\u201d said Montrealer Selena Ringwald. \u201cMasking really doesn\u2019t bother me, even as someone who has breathing issues after having COVID.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data shows Quebec with 21&nbsp;measles cases as of Friday 2&nbsp;p.m., including 15 in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CIUSSS de l\u2019Est, health centres in the eastern part of the island have responded by reinstating mask mandates and launching a vaccination campaign in elementary schools.<\/p>\n<p>Notre-Dame and Sainte-Justine Hospitals are also among those requiring patients to wear masks to stop the spread. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it\u2019s necessary, especially to protect those who are more vulnerable,\u201d said Montrealer Selena Ringwald. \u201cMasking really doesn\u2019t bother me, even as someone who has breathing issues after having COVID.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/mask-mandate-reinstated-in-some-quebec-health-facilities-following-rise-in-measles-cases\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mask mandate reinstated in some Quebec health facilities following rise in measles cases<\/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":[96,23,19,388,178,304,70,62,1059,143,15],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-hospitals","tag-masks","tag-measles","tag-montreal","tag-outbreaks","tag-quebec","tag-schools","tag-tiohtiake","tag-universal-masking","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","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=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}