{"id":7808,"date":"2025-01-08T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2025-01-08T20:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:36:03","slug":"masking-required-at-all-bc-health-care-facilities-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masking-required-at-all-bc-health-care-facilities-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Masking required at all B.C. health-care facilities once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masks must again be worn in health-care facilities across B.C., according to the province\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to CBC News, the Ministry of Health said the requirement came into effect on Jan.&nbsp;6, and everyone in health-care facilities, including staff, patients, visitors and volunteers, must wear medical masks \u201cin areas where patients are actively seeking care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move is in response to what the ministry says is a rise in influenza and RSV infections in B.C. COVID-19, it said, is \u201cstable but showing early signs of an increase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masks must again be worn in health-care facilities across B.C., according to the province\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to CBC News, the Ministry of Health said the requirement came into effect on Jan.&nbsp;6, and everyone in health-care facilities, including staff, patients, visitors and volunteers, must wear medical masks \u201cin areas where patients are actively seeking care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move is in response to what the ministry says is a rise in influenza and RSV infections in B.C. COVID-19, it said, is \u201cstable but showing early signs of an increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masking-required-at-all-bc-health-care-facilities-once-again\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masking required at all B.C. health-care facilities once again<\/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":[83,96,930,18,232,23,77,233,80,49,14,143],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canadian-covid-society","tag-covid-19","tag-do-no-harm-bc","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-protect-our-province-bc","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","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=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7811,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}