On this date, the government will no longer impose the wearing of masks in health establishments. Nevertheless, the hospitals of Paris intend to maintain this measure.
Wearing a mask will disappear everywhere in France from July 31… With a few exceptions. Confirming information from Parisian the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) indicated to the Figaro what “wearing a mask will remain compulsory inside AP-HP hospital buildings (not in outdoor areas) for staff, patients and visitors».
A decision madedue to the fragility of the people who are welcomed, and given the high level of circulation of the virus“, we explain. Likewise, in order to protect both patients and staff, “physical distancing must be respected as soon as the mask cannot be worn and hand disinfection by hydroalcoholic friction carried out regularly».
At present, wearing a mask remains only compulsory in health and medico-social establishments. As of July 31, this imperative will no longer be relevant as a general rule: the square of fabric well known to the French will then only be “very highly recommendedin these places, underlines a source within the Ministry of Health.
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A relaxation that is not necessarily welcomed by all establishments. It is also not excluded that others will follow the example of the AP-HP. The executive does not prohibit either “to adjust“the general rule on wearing a mask according to the evolution of”the epidemic situationone way or the other.
Europe has been going through a seventh wave of Covid-19 for several weeks. At the beginning of July, France thus experienced several consecutive days with more than 200,000 positive tests recorded. A rhythm that has long raised fears of a return to the mandatory mask in transport. This track was finally dismissed by the executive, to the chagrin of certain professionals, such as Patrick Pelloux, who estimated, at the beginning of July, that the end of the compulsory mask in these places was “a mistake“. As the incidence rate is now in decline, the atmosphere is even at the lifting of the last restrictions hovering over the territory.