{"id":9699,"date":"2026-03-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9699"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:47:01","slug":"ilcad-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/communities\/ottawa-gatineau\/ilcad-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"International Long COVID Awareness Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>International Long COVID Awareness Day &#8211; COVID-cautious walk<\/h2>\n<p><b>Date: Sunday, March&nbsp;15, 2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Time: 7&nbsp;pm \u2013 8&nbsp;pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Where: Ottawa City Hall (meet at the entrance, Laurier Avenue side)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a walk on International Long COVID Awareness Day, Sunday, March&nbsp;15, 2026 at 7&nbsp;pm. The route is wheelchair-accessible. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/still-coviding-ottawa-gatineau\/events\/313530610\/\" target=\"_blank\">RSVP on Meetup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll walk to Parliament Hill and the ByWard Market. The Ottawa sign will be illuminated with a teal colour during International Long COVID Awareness Day. We\u2019ll have some posters, and you can post photos taken at the sign &mdash; use the hashtags: #ILCAD2026, #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #LongCovidAwarenessDay2026.<\/p>\n<h3>\ud83d\ude37 Health precautions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Please wear a respirator during the walk (e.g.: N95, FFP3, CAN99, elastomeric or equivalent).<\/li>\n<li>You must be fully vaccinated to attend the event.<\/li>\n<li>Please stay home if you\u2019ve been sick during the past two weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u267f\ufe0f Accessibility:<\/b> Jack Purcell Community Centre has wheelchair-accessible washrooms.<\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udc15 No pets:<\/b> Because some participants have allergies, we have a no-pets rule. Exceptions: animals used for people with visual impairments, or personal support animals.<\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83d\ude86 Station:<\/b> uOttawa.<\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83c\udd7f\ufe0f Information about parking:<\/b> There is parking at Ottawa City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>International Long COVID Awareness Day &#8211; COVID-cautious walk<\/h3>\n<p><b>Date: Sunday, March\u00a015, 2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Time: 7\u00a0pm \u2013 8\u00a0pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Where: Ottawa City Hall (meet at the entrance, Laurier Avenue side)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a walk on International Long COVID Awareness Day, Sunday, March\u00a015, 2026 at 7\u00a0pm. The route is wheelchair-accessible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/communities\/ottawa-gatineau\/ilcad-2026\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Long COVID Awareness Day 2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[96,18,960,11,119,137,249,14],"class_list":["post-9699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ottawa-gatineau","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-international-long-covid-awareness-day","tag-long-covid","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699","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=9699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9710,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9699\/revisions\/9710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}