Wearing a mask is no longer compulsory in most places open to the public. Transport was one of the last places open to the public where the mask remained compulsory. Starting from Monday, May 16, 2022this will no longer be the case, even if the government continues to recommend wearing it.
The mask is no longer mandatory In public transports (bus, metro, trains…) from Monday 16 May.
On the other hand, the mask does not disappear from our lives ! It will remain necessary in certain public places.
In a press release issued on May 12, the government explains: “Besides the encouraging improvement in the epidemic situationthe lifting of the obligation to wear a mask in public transport is based on the latest recommendations of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control”.
Places where the mask remains obligatory
However, in health establishments and medico-social establishments, the mask, like the health pass remain required. This therefore means: analysis laboratories, hospitals, nursing homes, specialized homes for disabled people, for example.
Promiscuity, immunocompromised people…
In addition, the Ministry of Health specifies on May 12 that “in general, wearing a mask remains recommended in the situations of great promiscuity“.
But also “in contact with fragile people and in closed places where the ventilation is not ideal”.
Precisely, immunocompromised people are worried, as pointed out by Yvanie Caillé, founder of the association of patients with kidney disease Renaloo. In an interview with Liberation, she sounds the alarm for these patients already excluded from the public space since the start of the pandemic.
“End of the mask in transport: easing health measures helps to further exclude the immunocompromised” –
ITW’s@YvanieCaille– founder of Renaloo – ds@libe #graft#dialysishttps://t.co/3gpqtBvVCW
—Renaloo (@Renaloo) May 16, 2022
Naturally, Covid-19 positive people are asked to continue to protect others via the mask, “until seven days after their release from isolation”.
Source : Improvement of the health situation: the Government announces the end of the obligation to wear a mask in public transport, Ministry of Health, 12 May 2022.
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