Since May 16, wearing a mask is no longer compulsory on public transport.
A relief for many users of buses, metros, trains, taxis or planes, who for the most part were fed up with this restrictive measure.
But the respite was short-lived since less than a month and a half later, the mask should make its comeback.
The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, invited on RTL, indeed urged the French on Monday to “put the mask back on transport”.
The Minister calls for the moment for "a citizen gesture" since her request does not present any obligatory or coercive character for the moment and comes at a time when the Covid-19 epidemic has been experiencing a resurgence in France for three weeks, with the Omicron BA.5 variant is progressing rapidly.
For her, this obligation must extend to all "closed places" or conducive to "promiscuity".
A perfectly justified decision, according to Brigitte Bourguignon: “You just have to see a station hall or a crowded train to know that first of all you have to protect yourself and protect others”.
According to the latest figures from Public Health France, 71,000 cases are detected every day on a weekly average.
