{"id":5539,"date":"2023-10-11T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2023-10-11T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:24:21","slug":"masks-to-be-required-at-all-ns-health-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/masks-to-be-required-at-all-ns-health-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks to be Required at all NS Health Facilities."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As cases of COVID-19 increase in the community and in anticipation of circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses in the coming weeks, Nova Scotia Health is making important changes to the protective measures currently in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting on&nbsp;<strong>Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023<\/strong>, medical masking will be&nbsp;<strong><u>required<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;in the following settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Upon entry to Nova Scotia Health facilities and in common\/public areas such as hallways, elevators, staircases, and cafeterias.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All clinical care areas where patients, clients, families and essential care partners\/caregivers are present.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All inpatient and ambulatory care settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Masks will be available at all public entrances. There will not be any changes to support person restrictions at this time, however anyone with any one COVID-19 symptom is asked not to visit our facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reducing the risk of transmission of respiratory viruses is everyone\u2019s responsibility. Nova Scotia Health thanks everyone for their cooperation in protecting our most vulnerable patients and each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Do you have a COVID-19 symptom?\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nshealth.ca%2Fvisit-covid-19-testing-centre-or-public-health-mobile-unit&amp;data=05%7C01%7CCarla.Adams%40nshealth.ca%7Ce05d93eebd3c4ed6a30f08dbb861895f%7C8eb23313ce754345a56a297a2412b4db%7C0%7C0%7C638306502626702301%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5zcW1g72mwG3ebIpVEyGab4Xeam49GvVO3i6TSEti5Q%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">Get tested right away!<\/a><em>\u00a0Early detection is key when it comes to being considered for COVID-19 medication.\u00a0Please complete the\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nshealth.ca%2Freportandsupport&amp;data=05%7C01%7CCarla.Adams%40nshealth.ca%7Ce05d93eebd3c4ed6a30f08dbb861895f%7C8eb23313ce754345a56a297a2412b4db%7C0%7C0%7C638306502626702301%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XzriVsJQ9ALc%2F9bnpI096RkBPl5qq0bCSCRlTmKONtk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">Report and Support form<\/a><em>\u00a0when you book a PCR test or have a positive rapid test.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: NSHA Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cases of COVID-19 increase in the community and in anticipation of circulation of influenza and other respiratory viruses in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}