{"id":3877,"date":"2020-07-16T13:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2020-07-16T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T06:31:30","slug":"uk-health-minister-says-will-not-recommending-masks-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/uk-health-minister-says-will-not-recommending-masks-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"UK health minister says will not be recommending masks in offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>British Health Minister Matt Hancock said that the government would not be recommending that people wear face masks in offices, after speculation that rules for work places could follow shops.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3878\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3878 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/uk-1-1594804180-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"512\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britain&#8217;s Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks during the daily COVID-19 briefing at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain June 22, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe will not be recommending masks in the office,\u201d Hancock told\u00a0<em>Sky News<\/em>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shoppers in England will have to wear face coverings in shops and supermarkets from July 24 to help reduce the risk of a new pick-up in the spread of the coronavirus, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hancock told the\u00a0<em>BBC\u00a0<\/em>that the government had looked at making wearing masks in offices but rejected the idea on the basis that if people spend a long time together, face coverings do not offer protection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s interaction with people who you aren\u2019t normally with, and that\u2019s where the mask can be particularly helpful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Face coverings are already compulsory on public transport in England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<em>Telegraph\u00a0<\/em>newspaper reported earlier on Wednesday that the government could soon recommend face coverings in all public places including offices and other workplaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about the report on the\u00a0<em>BBC<\/em>, Hancock said: \u201cNo&#8230; It\u2019s something that we\u2019ve looked at and rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Health Minister Matt Hancock said that the government would not be recommending that people wear face masks in offices, after speculation that rules for work places could follow shops. \u201cWe will not be recommending masks in the office,\u201d Hancock told\u00a0Sky News\u00a0on Wednesday. Shoppers in England will have to wear face coverings in shops and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[1087,1123],"class_list":{"0":"post-3877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}