COVID-19 screening and mandatory masking requirements for entry to hospitals will end on Sunday. (Robert Short/CBC - image credit)Nova Scotia Health will remove COVID-19 screeners from the entrances to its facilities starting Sunday, according to a release from the authority. Speaking to CBC Radio's Information Morning Cape Breton on Thursday, Angela Keenan, senior director of the Emerging and Reemerging Infections Network with Nova Scotia Health, said the move follows "multi-layered" discussions at all levels of the health-care system. Angela Keenan says the Nova Scotia Health Authority had to plan for a worst-case scenario of entire departments being shut down if employees got sick. Story continuesPeople with COVID-19 symptoms will still be required to wear a mask when entering a Nova Scotia Health facility, it said.

Source: CBC News September 07, 2023 19:20 UTC