{"id":5131,"date":"2020-06-01t09:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-01t08:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2021-02-02t15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02t15:28:20","slug":"changes-to-shielding-guidance-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/changes-to-shielding-guidance-in-england-and-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"changes to shielding guidance in england and wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1st june 2020 <\/strong><\/p><p>it has been announced by the uk government that people who are shielding in england and wales are now allowed to go outdoors with a member of their household.<\/p><p><strong><em>remember though that people with pulmonary hypertension are in a high risk group so do try to stay at home as much as you can while you&#8217;re shielding. <\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>from monday 1<sup>st<\/sup> june, those living alone can meet with one person from outside their household, in the outdoors, but the guidance is to stay at least two metres apart.<\/p><p>if you are shielding and live in england, the guidance is you can go outside once a day. if you are shielding and live in wales, you can go outside as many times as you want to.<\/p><p><strong>the guidance around going to shops or work is unchanged. if you are shielding you should still avoid doing these things. <\/strong>support for those shielding, such as food and medicine deliveries, will continue. shielding advice in northern ireland and scotland has not yet changed.<\/p><p>enjoying a walk with a family member or friend can make a big positive difference to emotional and mental wellbeing for everyone, especially after staying inside for so long. it\u2019s unlikely that going out will be completely risk-free in terms of covid-19 infection for some weeks to come. but being able to do more exercise, and see friends and family, does also bring huge benefits.<\/p><p>we know that social distancing \u2013 keeping two metres apart from people outside your household \u2013 reduces our risk of catching coronavirus. <strong>frequent and thorough hand washing is also really important.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>remember to always stay 2 metres (3 steps) away from people you don&#8217;t live with. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st june 2020 it has been announced by the uk government that people who are shielding in england and wales are now allowed to go outdoors with a member of their household. remember though that people with pulmonary hypertension are in a high risk group so do try to stay at home as much as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}