Several southwestern Ontario hospitals say that starting next week staff, patients and visitors will no longer be required to wear masks at all times
“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. “However, for now, masking in areas where there are patients and/or visitors continues to be mandatory at Montfort,” said Geneviève Picard, a spokesperson for the hospital.“We are actively monitoring indicators like wastewater, hospitalization, ICU and positivity, which are stabilizing,” said Queensway Carleton spokesperson Kelly Spence.
He said hospitals should continue to monitor outbreaks among patients and staff and be prepared to reimpose a masking requirement if necessary.“Some things are positive about where we are in the pandemic as it looks like we’re on the downward trajectory of the wave we just experienced. But.. the thing that’s concerning is at baseline, there seems to be a persistent, high-level of COVID spread that just has not resolved since Omicron first arrived in early 2022.
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