{"id":52535,"date":"2020-03-22T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=52535"},"modified":"2020-03-22T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T18:13:19","slug":"health-care-worker-at-the-ottawa-hospital-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/health-care-worker-at-the-ottawa-hospital-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Health-care worker at The Ottawa Hospital tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the <a href=\"https:\/\/eohu.ca\/en\/article\/2020-03-22\">Eastern Ontario Health Unit announced<\/a> that a health-care worker in our region has tested positive for COVID-19. The individual works at The Ottawa Hospital and is currently in self-isolation.<\/p>\n<p>All staff and patients who had direct interaction with this individual have been notified and advised of the public health measures they must take.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Ontario\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/2019-novel-coronavirus\">website<\/a> to learn more about how the province continues to protect Ontarians from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapublichealth.ca\/en\/public-health-topics\/novel-coronavirus.aspx?utm_source=OPH&amp;utm_medium=Home_Page_Banner&amp;utm_campaign=Coronavirus&amp;utm_content=Home_Page_Banner_OPH\">What to do if you think you might have COVID-19 (Ottawa Public Health)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/2019-novel-coronavirus\">Information about COVID-19 in Ontario<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/patients-visitors\/visiting-the-hospital\/\">Visitor restrictions are currently in effect at The Ottawa Hospital<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/ottawa-area-hospitals-postpone-non-urgent-surgeries-procedures-and-programming-to-prepare-for-covid-19\/\">Ottawa area hospitals postpone non-urgent surgeries, procedures and programming to prepare for COVID-19<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Eastern Ontario Health Unit announced that a health-care worker in our region has tested positive for COVID-19. The individual works at The Ottawa Hospital and is currently in self-isolation. All staff and patients who had direct interaction with this individual have been notified and advised of the public health measures they must take. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}