{"id":9141,"date":"2025-09-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:49:36","slug":"horizon-resumes-mandatory-masking-as-respiratory-illnesses-rise-in-n-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/horizon-resumes-mandatory-masking-as-respiratory-illnesses-rise-in-n-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon resumes mandatory masking as respiratory illnesses rise in N.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horizon Health Network has reintroduced mandatory masking in all patient-facing clinical areas in all of its facilities, starting Wednesday, citing a rise in respiratory virus activity.<\/p>\n<p>All health-care workers, patients, social visitors, and designated support people will be required to wear a medical grade face mask, also known as a surgical or procedure mask, at all times in all inpatient units, outpatient\/ambulatory care clinics and emergency departments, and any other clinical setting, including waiting areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this upward trend, and knowing this time of year historically leads to further increase of viral transmission, Horizon is taking a proactive and precautionary measure,&#8221; the regional health authority said in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horizon Health Network has reintroduced mandatory masking in all patient-facing clinical areas in all of its facilities, starting Wednesday, citing a rise in respiratory virus activity.<\/p>\n<p>All health-care workers, patients, social visitors, and designated support people will be required to wear a medical grade face mask, also known as a surgical or procedure mask, at all times in all inpatient units, outpatient\/ambulatory care clinics and emergency departments, and any other clinical setting, including waiting areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this upward trend, and knowing this time of year historically leads to further increase of viral transmission, Horizon is taking a proactive and precautionary measure,&#8221; the regional health authority said in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/horizon-resumes-mandatory-masking-as-respiratory-illnesses-rise-in-n-b\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Horizon resumes mandatory masking as respiratory illnesses rise in N.B.<\/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":[96,18,1099,23,19,73,14,143],"class_list":["post-9141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-horizon-health-network","tag-hospitals","tag-masks","tag-new-brunswick","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141","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=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9142,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions\/9142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}