{"id":9537,"date":"2025-12-18T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9537"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:21:54","slug":"masks-now-required-at-all-nova-scotia-health-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-now-required-at-all-nova-scotia-health-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks now required at all Nova Scotia Health sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nshealth.ca\/news-and-notices\/changes-masking-requirements-nova-scotia-health-facilities\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nova Scotia Health says<\/a> masking is required throughout all its facilities beginning Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the health authority says masks are not required in:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>administrative buildings<\/li>\n<li>private offices, nursing stations, or conference rooms (if no patients are present)<\/li>\n<li>cafeterias (when people are seated)<\/li>\n<li>patient bed-spaces (for patients, partners, and visitors)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nova Scotia Health says some other exceptions may be allowed in specific cases and people should check with staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nshealth.ca\/news-and-notices\/changes-masking-requirements-nova-scotia-health-facilities\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nova Scotia Health says<\/a> masking is required throughout all its facilities beginning Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the health authority says masks are not required in:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>administrative buildings<\/li>\n<li>private offices, nursing stations, or conference rooms (if no patients are present)<\/li>\n<li>cafeterias (when people are seated)<\/li>\n<li>patient bed-spaces (for patients, partners, and visitors)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/masks-now-required-at-all-nova-scotia-health-sites\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Masks now required at all Nova Scotia Health sites<\/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":[96,18,23,77,19,218,14,143],"class_list":["post-9537","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-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537","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=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}