According to the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, the outdoor mask against Covid-19 should no longer be mandatory from July 1, 2021. The fact remains that we will still have to protect ourselves this summer.
Will summer be masked or not? This is the question of the day. This Monday, June 14, 2021, Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Health, announced at RTL’s microphone that wearing a mask outdoors to counter the coronavirus should no longer be mandatory from July 1, 2021, “if conditions permit”. He adds, however, that “The barrier measures remain, namely hand washing, distances and vigilance in large gatherings. (…) The barrier measures will remain after June 30 “.
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Regarding the indoor mask, it should remain mandatory according to Jérôme Salomon, because “there is a lot more risk” contamination. For its part, the Ministry of Health told Agence France-Presse, relayed by West France, that“No decision has yet been taken concerning the wearing of the mask outdoors in the coming weeks, which therefore remains the rule. Scientific experts will have to decide during the month of June on an evolution of this rule”.
This weekend of June 12 and 13, 2021, the 30 million first-time vaccinated milestone was exceeded in France, according to Public health France. “All the old people with diseases, with risk factors, pregnant women, people who suffer from obesity, all of these people need to be vaccinated now.”, at insisted once again the director general of health. Enough to allow a summer 2021 a little more serene.