Wearing a mask will be required — temporarily — in all clinical areas in hospitals and health-care facilities, including long-term care, across Newfoundland and Labrador in a bid to cut down on respiratory infections this flu season, says the provincial health authority.

In a statement on Wednesday, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services announced the mandate is in place effective Monday at 8 a.m. NT.

“These precautions are in place to help keep patients, clients, long-term care residents, visitors, staff and physicians safe and to help in the prevention and spread of infection,” the statement reads.

The health authority said it will monitor epidemiology, hospitalizations and outbreaks, and will re-evaluate the mandate as late as March 31, 2026.

NLHS also asked people to self-scree

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