{"id":46757,"date":"2020-04-14T21:15:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T19:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-africa-advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-context-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-04-14T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T19:15:07","slug":"coronavirus-africa-advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-context-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-africa-advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-context-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Africa: Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/57975af04d6b471.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/57975af04d6b471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This document (https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JKulzM) provides advice on the use of masks in communities, during home care, and in health care settings in areas that have reported cases of COVID-19. It is intended for individuals in the community, public health and infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals, health care managers, health care workers (HCWs), and community health workers. This updated version includes a section on Advice to decision makers on the use of masks for healthy people in community settings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download the document:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Rlx7Qt<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of World Health Organization (WHO).<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/who.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-africa-advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-context-of-covid19?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo This document (https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JKulzM) provides advice on the use of masks in communities, during home care, and in health care settings in areas that have reported cases of COVID-19. It is intended for individuals in the community, public health and infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals, health care managers, health care workers (HCWs), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[12559,258,256,2462,27446,32489,32926,33381,257,254],"class_list":["post-46757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-advice","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-context","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-masks","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}