2024-01-08 20:20:23
Spain, a country traumatized by the first wave of the Covid pandemic in spring 2020, had been wondering about the measure for several days while the Spanish regions, which have control over health issues, disagreed.
At the end of a meeting with representatives of the different Spanish regions on “coordinated public health actions in the face of these epidemic peaks“winter, the measure was decreed.
Wearing a mask will not be compulsory in pharmacies, however, specifies the Ministry of Health.
On Friday, the Spanish government announced that it wanted a return to the national level of the mask.
Facing the “notable increase in respiratory virus infections“, “we call“on the return of”mask compulsory in sanitary and socio-sanitary areas” of the country, declared on X the Minister of Health Monica Garcia.
The minister spoke in particular of “hospitals” et “health centers“public, where a large part of the consultations are carried out.
The Valencia region (east) and Catalonia (northeast) had already announced on Friday that they were making the wearing of masks compulsory for health professionals and patients in their hospitals and health centers.
This decision was taken while doctors have been sounding the alarm for several days regarding the increase in cases of flu, but also of Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses, particularly in the eastern regions of the country.
During the Covid pandemic, the obligation to wear a mask was very widely respected in Spain, where the confinement put in place was among the strictest in the world.
The compulsory wearing of masks was only lifted in July 2023 in places likely to accommodate people at risk, such as hospitals, retirement homes or even pharmacies.
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