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Manitoba will lift most mask rules in health-care facilities

Manitoba Most of the masking requirements for health-care facilities in Manitoba are set to be lifted next week. Masks will still be required in areas with vulnerable groups like cancer, transplant patients: Shared Health The Canadian Press · Posted: May 03, 2023 3:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 3 Most of the masking requirements for health-care facilities in Manitoba are set to be lifted next week, but some individual health-care clinics may still require people to wear masks indoors, Shared Health says. (Radio-Canada) Most of the masking requirements for health-care facilities in Manitoba are set to be lifted next…
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Britain’s NHS has never seen industrial action on this scale

OnMay 2nd health-care trade unions in England finally signed off on a government pay deal. More than 1m workers in the National Health Service (NHS) will receive pay increases of 5% this year—with an additional one-off bonus added on for the previous year. But hopes for an end to the industrial action that has convulsed the health service in the past six months may be dashed. Two of the 14 unions to vote on the deal are still holding out for something better. The settlement does not include NHS doctors. Whatever happens, the strikes have caused over half a million…