{"id":95955,"date":"2020-04-28T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=95955"},"modified":"2020-04-28T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:08:56","slug":"scottish-officials-recommend-face-coverings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/scottish-officials-recommend-face-coverings\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Officials Recommend Face Coverings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scotland has become the first UK country to recommend the use of face coverings.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though the evidence has been described as \u201climited\u201d a Scottish government officials has said: \u201cThere may be some benefit in wearing a facial covering when you leave the house and enter enclosed spaces, especially where physical distancing is more difficult and where there is a risk of close contact with multiple people you do not usually meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are recommending that you consider using face coverings in the limited circumstances described above as a precautionary measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such spaces where masks may be an appropriate protective measure include shops, public transport, and basically anywhere where it\u2019s not entirely possible to stay 2 metres+ away from people not from your household.<\/p>\n<p>The official continued saying: \u201cThere is no evidence to suggest there might be a benefit outdoors, unless in an unavoidable crowded situation, where there may be some benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs some people can have the virus but experience no symptoms, wearing a face covering in the situations outlined above may provide some level of protection against transmission to other people in close proximity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been stressed that the use of them is definitely not mandatory, and no one is being forced to wear them, they\u2019re simply just recommended in certain areas. But in time this may change from a simple recommendation to a necessity. The rest of the UK hasn\u2019t followed in Scotland\u2019s footsteps as of yet, as there\u2019s still some uncertainty about how effective these coverings are, and there is much conflicted evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Coverings include things such as cloth and scarves, this differs from official medical masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland has become the first UK country to recommend the use of face coverings. Even though the evidence has been described as \u201climited\u201d a Scottish government officials has said: \u201cThere may be some benefit in wearing a facial covering when you leave the house and enter enclosed spaces, especially where physical distancing is more difficult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,5],"tags":[1802,1811,1810,171,990,71,782,1836,1835,1819,101,43],"class_list":["post-95955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-information","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-health","tag-health-news","tag-news","tag-scotland","tag-scotland-news","tag-scottish","tag-scottish-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95997,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95955\/revisions\/95997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}