Masks in Mayenne - Mathieu Pattier / SIPA

Go out well wrapped up, go out warmly dressed. The compulsory wearing of masks in closed places receiving the public, imposed since Thursday in Laval and in five peripheral municipalities, has been extended since Friday evening to the entire department of Mayenne, we learned from the prefecture.

A decision taken "after consultation with representatives of mayors and given the persistence of a health situation placing the department of Mayenne in" high vulnerability "in terms of Covid-19", said the prefecture in a statement Friday evening.

50.1 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants detected in seven days

"To complete the order and allow everyone to have a mask, the prefecture of Mayenne obtained from the Ministry of the Interior an exceptional endowment of 650,000 fabric masks received today" and "a distribution of these masks will be made from next week, ”says the same source.

Mayenne slightly exceeded the alert threshold with 50.1 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants detected in seven days. A massive screening plan for the entire population over the age of 10, or around 300,000 people, was launched at the start of the week in this department.

In Finistère, a prefectural decree has also made the wearing of masks mandatory since Thursday in enclosed public places on certain islands, but also in the markets of several tourist municipalities in the department. Nationally, wearing a mask in enclosed spaces open to the public will become mandatory next week.

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