{"id":9428,"date":"2025-11-14T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2025-11-15T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:05:02","slug":"here-are-cheos-new-visitor-guidelines-as-flu-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/here-are-cheos-new-visitor-guidelines-as-flu-season-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are CHEO&#8217;s new visitor guidelines as flu season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHEO is reinstating public health measures for visitors to the hospital as viral season begins.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Monday (Nov.&nbsp;17), visitors will be asked to wear masks while in all waiting areas and during clinical interactions. <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/cheo-the-hospital-that-wasnt-supposed-to-be-there-celebrates-50-years\">CHEO<\/a> will also begin limiting visitors. There will be a limit of one caregiver for patients <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/cheo-nurses-researchers\">attending appointments<\/a>, and no visitors under the age of 12 \u2014 including siblings \u2014 will be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The precautions are being taken to help reduce the spread of viruses and protect those who visit the hospital and its community locations, spokesperson Karl Oczkowski said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEO is reinstating public health measures for visitors to the hospital as viral season begins.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Monday (Nov.&nbsp;17), visitors will be asked to wear masks while in all waiting areas and during clinical interactions. <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/cheo-the-hospital-that-wasnt-supposed-to-be-there-celebrates-50-years\">CHEO<\/a> will also begin limiting visitors. There will be a limit of one caregiver for patients <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/cheo-nurses-researchers\">attending appointments<\/a>, and no visitors under the age of 12 \u2014 including siblings \u2014 will be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The precautions are being taken to help reduce the spread of viruses and protect those who visit the hospital and its community locations, spokesperson Karl Oczkowski said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/here-are-cheos-new-visitor-guidelines-as-flu-season-begins\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here are CHEO&#8217;s new visitor guidelines as flu season begins<\/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":[96,449,23,119,137,249,143],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-cheo","tag-hospitals","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","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=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}