{"id":615271,"date":"2023-03-07T08:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/masks-still-needed-in-hospitals-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:16:24","slug":"masks-still-needed-in-hospitals-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/masks-still-needed-in-hospitals-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks still needed in hospitals, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dropping of Hong Kong&#8217;s rules on wearing masks won&#8217;t apply to hospitals and other public healthcare facilities, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Patients, visitors and staff members must still cover up, the Hospital Authority (HA) said in a statement, &#8220;to minimise the risk of spreading viruses and to protect patients from infection&#8230; Raleigh Badon <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1689846-20230228.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dropping of Hong Kong&#8217;s rules on wearing masks won&#8217;t apply to hospitals and other public healthcare facilities, officials said on Tuesday. Patients, visitors and staff members must still cover up, the Hospital Authority (HA) said in a statement, &#8220;to minimise the risk of spreading viruses and to protect patients from infection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30568,1310],"tags":[16841,8094],"class_list":{"0":"post-615271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-masks","8":"category-needed","9":"tag-masks","10":"tag-needed"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}