Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, announced measures at a press conference for residents of his city on Monday. Among the announcements: the wearing of the mask soon compulsory on the streets of Nice. The capital of the Alpes-Maritimes, which will have to equip each inhabitant, will become the first major French city to impose it.
To stop the coronavirus, Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, will make mandatory wearing a mask in the streets of the city. A decision made in response to "relaxation" of the last few days observed everywhere in France, but also in Nice. The 340,000 inhabitants will have to wear a protective mask outside their home, he announced Monday during a press conference.
A municipal decree will be signed within 10 days, once "each Nice" will have been equipped with "washable and reusable mask for a month, which respects all sanitary measures", promises the elected official, aware of asking the inhabitants for a "crucial effort to win a collective war".
"I am not going to ask people to go out to go to distribution points to pick them up. I cannot say on the one hand: Stay home and ask everyone to come out for that. D'here 24 to 48 hours, I will announce how within 8 to 10 days we will be able to distribute to each Niçois a washable and reusable mask for a month, which respects all sanitary measures. ", explained Christian Estrosi.
Cannes too
Nice will become the largest French city to adopt this measure (prohibiting outings without mask), already applied abroad, such as in Lombardy (Italy), Slovenia or Slovakia.
Also in the Alpes-Maritimes, another city will also distribute cloth masks to its inhabitants. It's Cannes. The town has decided to bring together retouchers from the city to produce them and be able to provide them to the population.
This equipment corresponds to "general public" or "alternative" masks, the compulsory wearing of which outside the home was recommended on Friday by the Academy of Medicine. The government, for its part, is gradually reassessing its doctrine in this area. The executive no longer rules out adopting a "mask for all" strategy. Friday, Professor Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Public Health, encouraged "le general public " at "carry" the "alternative masks that are in production ", "s'he wishes', he said, without advancing any obligation.
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