Without a legal framework since Monday, with the end of the emergency measures linked to Covid-19, the use of a mask remains “highly recommended” until further notice, the Ministry of Health told AFP on Thursday.
Despite the extinction scheduled for August 1 of the exceptional health regimes, the use of this emblematic respiratory protection device “remains, for the time being, highly recommended in health and medico-social establishments,” underlines the ministry.
A general instruction, in the absence of obligation, which is justified “by the fragility of the people who take refuge there and taking into account the high level of circulation of the virus.”
A recommendation that “could be adjusted”
However, “this recommendation could, of course, be adjusted if the epidemic situation continued to improve,” adds the ministry, while the seventh epidemic wave is in clear ebb, with less than 62,000 daily infections (on average for seven days) compared to more than 130,000 three weeks ago.
However, some hospitals have chosen to maintain the restriction, the lifting of which worries a certain number of caregivers. The Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the largest French hospital group, thus clarified to AFP that “the use of a mask will continue to be mandatory within (its) hospital buildings for staff, patients and visitors” , confirming information from the newspaper. the parisian.
The rule will not apply, on the other hand, “not even in outdoor spaces” of the AP-HP, which also recalls that “physical distancing must be respected as soon as the mask and hand disinfection cannot be worn by regular alcoholic hydrofrictions”.
Source: BFM TV
