Mandatory mask (early), we are English. After days of media announcements and fluctuations, the British Tory government finally formalizes, through the mouth of Health Minister Matt Hancock, the expected introduction of the forced use of masks, or of a face cover, in all the shops of the England from 24 July.
Violators will be punished with fines of £ 100 per offense, Hancock said, confirming what had been anticipated in the past few hours from Downing Street. So far in England this precaution had been made binding - since mid-June - in public transport and in hospitals, while in shops it was only recommended.
The turn, urged by many parties for some time, aligns England not only with over a hundred foreign countries, but also with Scotland, where the obligation in commercial establishments has been in force for over a week at the behest of the local government led by the 'SNP; while Wales, where Labor is in power, remains further behind, with face protection not yet mandatory even on means of transport (it will be from 27).
An updated research by the ONS, the British Istat, furthermore confirms a certain collective refractoriness of the subjects of the Kingdom on this front, in the name of an alleged individual freedom, albeit with an increase of up to 50% of the population - in the last weeks - of the quota of those who now declare to wear the mask of habit in public places: as it was "recommended" for some time to do.
Meanwhile, a report, made public by Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser to Boris Johnson and his government, has emerged to encourage concerns, according to which - in the case of a second widespread wave of infections - the United Kingdom could face the "reasonably worse" scenario "of a total death toll of 120,000 from Covid-19 at the end of winter 2021: a real massacre, potentially, for a country that, with about 45,000 deaths officially registered with the swab since the start of the pandemic, already holds the sad record today of mortality in Europe in absolute numbers.
Great Britain. The Kingdom bends to the obligatory mask. Now he fears 120,000 dead
2020-07-15T16:36:31.313Z
July 14 © ANSAMandatory mask (early), we are English. After days of media announcements and fluctuations, the British Tory government finally formalizes, through the mouth of Health Minister Matt Hancock, the expected introduction of the forced use of masks, or of a face cover, in all the shops of the England from 24 July. Violators will be punished with fines of £ 100 per offense, Hancock said, confirming wha...
