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Will the mask requirement remain after the pandemic? In some areas it makes sense

2021-02-03T14:43:53.417Z


The mask requirement is having an effect: there has been no flu wave this Corona winter so far. In certain places, it makes sense to wear masks even after the pandemic. Does the mask requirement remain?


The mask requirement is having an effect: there has been no flu wave this Corona winter so far.

In certain places, it makes sense to wear masks even after the pandemic.

Does the mask requirement remain?

  • In Germany, 2,237,790 people have contracted the

    coronavirus

    and 58,956 people have died in connection with

    Covid-19 disease

    .

    (Status: 03.02.2021)

  • In

    Germany

    several are now

    vaccines

    approved, but by supply shortages and production difficulties, the vaccination campaign delayed *.

    An end to the pandemic is not yet in sight.

  • Will

    masks

    be

    required

    in some areas

    even after the

    corona pandemic

    ?

According to

experts

, it will be a long time before we

get rid of

the

mask requirement

.

Wherever the safety distance of 1.5 meters cannot be maintained,

mouth and nose protection is

the best and easiest way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus * and protect others.

How long the

corona pandemic

will

last

is not yet known exactly.

It is clear that the

mask requirement

will remain until the pandemic is contained.

But what about a mask requirement after the

pandemic

?

The positive effect of the mask requirement: wearing everyday masks has an effect

Even if many continue to disagree about the extent to which

fabric masks

really protect and whether the new medical mask requirement * makes sense, one fact cannot be denied: One

So far, there has been no flu wave this Corona winter.

In addition, pharmacists report that this

winter of 2020/2021 they sold

fewer medicines for

cold symptoms

such as runny nose, cough, sore throat and body aches - the demand for them has fallen.

The number of gastrointestinal diseases is also falling.

"The number of cases of many other

infectious diseases fell

during the

Covid-19 pandemic

compared to previous years," said Sonia Boender from the Surveillance Department at the

Robert Koch Institute (RKI) of

the

German Press Agency

.

The absence of a

flu epidemic

is not only observed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as many other European countries also report that they have up to 95 percent fewer influenza cases than in previous years.

Will the mask requirement remain after the pandemic?

Bacteria and

flu viruses

therefore spread less intensively in 2020 than in previous years.

This is of course not only due to the

mask requirement

, but also to the other aspects of the

AHA rules

: keep

your

distance,

observe

hygiene

and

wear

a

mask

in everyday life

.

How easy it can sometimes be: compliance with simple

hygiene measures

actually seems to work.

The question that is now in the room: What happens to the

mask requirement

after the end of the

corona pandemic

?

The majority of the population is happy that they will probably no

longer have to wear

an

everyday mask

when shopping, at work, at school, in a restaurant or even on the street

.

But there are areas in which

wearing a mask

makes sense even after the pandemic.

Where could there be a mask requirement in the future?

How often have you sat

close together

in the

doctor's

waiting room

with a bunch of other sick people and thought: “I hope I won't get infected with someone else”?

Thought a

full-face protection

to wear and not to put his hands all the time into his own face before the

washed hands

, has probably more likely to have only a few people.

Before the

corona pandemic

, it was, if at all, only the

doctors

themselves who

wore

mouth protection

.

However, it could definitely make sense

to continue wearing

an

everyday mask in the

future,

for example as a patient in the

waiting room

, in the treatment

room

, in the

hospital

or when visiting a

nursing home

, in order to protect other people from their own

viruses

and

bacteria

.

* echo24.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

List of rubric lists: © Tobias Hase / dpa

Source: merkur

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