{"id":5891,"date":"2024-05-23T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2024-05-23T18:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T22:07:51","slug":"masks-no-longer-mandatory-at-n-s-health-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-no-longer-mandatory-at-n-s-health-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks no longer mandatory at N.S. Health facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia Health will no longer require people to wear masks when entering its facilities, unless they are symptomatic.<\/p>\n<p>The health authority updated its rules on Tuesday, stating that it will continue to monitor levels of respiratory illness, including COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).<\/p>\n<p>In a memo posted on its website, it said it\u2019s confident in the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther adjustments to masking will be made in response to local epidemiology, which may include a return to universal masking during future seasons of increased viral respiratory activity,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, the health authority had reinstated masking requirements due to a rise in COVID-19 cases and the coming influenza season.<\/p>\n<p>The health authority said masks must still be worn by people who have symptoms of a respiratory illness. They may also be required during clinical interactions, following an assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova Scotia Health will no longer require people to wear masks when entering its facilities, unless they are symptomatic.<\/p>\n<p>The health authority updated its rules on Tuesday, stating that it will continue to monitor levels of respiratory illness, including COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-no-longer-mandatory-at-n-s-health-facilities\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masks no longer mandatory at N.S. Health facilities<\/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":[96,18,23,77,19,218,308,309,80,49,14,1157,143],"class_list":["post-5891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-masks","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nova-scotia-health","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-sociopaths","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891","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=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}