Several southwestern Ontario hospitals say that starting next week staff, patients, and visitors will no longer be required to wear masks at all times, dropping requirements introduced during the pandemic.
Physicians will only have to cover their mouths and nose if they are within two metres of a patient and not shielded by a physical barrier, or if there is an active COVID-19 outbreak in the unit, the hospitals announced in press releases.
“We recognize that COVID-19 is here to stay … We have to plan to gradually and safely go back to normal, while we continue to focus on mitigating risk to vulnerable patients.” Chatham-Kent Health Alliance's president Lori Marshall said the new guidelines will offer relief to health-care workers. “It's reasonable if you're going to start to remove masking requirements to do it in areas that don't involve patient care,” said Razak, who is also a professor at the University of Toronto.
Razak warned “it's very consequential if you have an outbreak among” hospital staff because the health-care system is already vulnerable.
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