New developments in the debates on the wearing of masks in the fight against covid-19. While the administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise suspended this Thursday the decree taken by the mayor of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) imposing on its citizens to leave the covered face in the streets of the town, the Minister of Interior Christophe Castaner announced on Thursday that he had asked for the withdrawal of similar orders made by other mayors in recent days.
Christophe Castaner asked to withdraw the orders making it mandatory to wear a mask pic.twitter.com/kQzzGyMulc
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) April 9, 2020"I asked the prefects to speak with these mayors so that they withdraw their orders during the entire period of confinement," the minister said before the parliamentary fact-finding mission on the Covid-19 epidemic which left him was auditioning.
According to him, "it is a problematic subject", "which is not medically proven". The Minister of the Interior recalled that according to the instructions given by the government the wearing of the mask was compulsory for the nursing staff, as well as for the contaminated people.
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