A number of Toronto hospitals have relaxed mandatory masking policies that have been in place throughout much of the COVID-19 pandemic.
University Health Network, Unity Health, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Sinai Health and the Hospital for Sick Children all recently introduced updated policies, which will allow visitors and staff to drop their masks in most public areas while keeping the requirement in place in patient rooms and in waiting areas where patients are present.
“This means that masks are still required by staff, visitors and essential care partners while patient care is being delivered, in patient rooms and in waiting areas, including our emergency department. Sinai Health is a mask-friendly environment in all other areas where masks are not required,” Jennifer Specht noted.
The further easing of masking requirements at Toronto hospitals comes with Ontario seeing its lowest level of COVID-19 viral activity in more than a year, as monitored through the province’s wastewater surveillance program.There were also just 36 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Toronto last week, down from double that number the month prior and hundreds earlier in the pandemic.
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