{"id":389920,"date":"2026-01-05T22:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:11:20","slug":"masking-required-at-south-county-hospital-as-respiratory-virus-activity-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389920\/","title":{"rendered":"Masking required at South County Hospital as respiratory virus activity increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WJAR)  \u2014 Starting on Monday, Jan. 5, masks are now required for all workers, patients, and visitors at South County Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>South County Health officials say the new policy was put in place as respiratory virus activity continues to rise in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Those viruses include the flu, COVID-19, and other respiratory infections.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors are required to wear a facility-issued mask in all areas. They are also asked not to enter the facility if they are experiencing acute respiratory symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to reduce the risk of transmission and create a safe environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJAR) \u2014 Starting on Monday, Jan. 5, masks are now required for all workers, patients, and visitors at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-389920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}