{"id":21815,"date":"2023-01-06T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/06\/mask-wearing-would-you-welcome-the-return-of-face-coverings\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:08:55","slug":"mask-wearing-would-you-welcome-the-return-of-face-coverings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=21815","title":{"rendered":"Mask wearing: Would you welcome the return of face coverings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">There have been sharp rises in the numbers of people in hospital with Covid and flu in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">About one in eight beds in England is now occupied by patients with these infections, government figures show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As a result, there have been some calls for a return to more mask wearing to help prevent the spread of viruses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Scotland&#8217;s national clinical director said people suffering from a virus should wear a face mask if they were out in public and they should not go to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Prof Jason Leitch said there needed to be a &#8220;new culture&#8221; of making sure people did not pass diseases to others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC spoke to people in Hull about whether they would be happy to mask up again. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-humber-64188621?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There have been sharp rises in the numbers of people in hospital with Covid and flu in recent weeks. About one in eight beds in England is now occupied &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}