The Spanish government will lift the obligation to wear a mask in public transport next month, announced Thursday January 26 the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias.
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I will present to the Council of Ministers on February 7 a proposal to abandon the compulsory nature of the
mask in public transport”, she declared to the press, without specifying the exact date of entry into force of this measure.
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We currently have a very stable epidemiological situation
,” she added, adding that wearing a mask would remain compulsory in health centers and hospitals.
A very respected measure so far
Spain had lifted the compulsory wearing of a mask indoors in April 2022, but it remained compulsory in transport (metro, buses, trains, etc.).
This measure has always been highly respected in the country, which was traumatized by the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, in the spring of 2020, and then imposed one of the strictest confinements in the world.
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Spain had even been one of the few countries to reinstate for a few weeks, at the end of 2021, the obligation to wear a mask outdoors to deal with the surge of the Omicron variant.
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