Homemade "barrier masks" that the mayor of Limoges wants to make compulsory on the public highway. - Cris Faga / Sipa USA / SIPA

A "civic duty" against the spread of the Covid-19. Emile Roger Lombertie, the mayor (LR) of Limoges asked residents of his city on Wednesday to wear "protection covering the mouth and nose on each of his trips to public space". At the same time, Emile Roger Lombertie called, in a press release, "all the seamstresses or the amateurs of cross stitches (...) to join the solidarity effort engaged to make voluntarily in number of masks out of fabric bound for our fellow citizens".

According to the municipality of Limoges, the wearing of a mask by the inhabitants is "all the more essential when they shop at markets, in halls, shops and supermarkets". "A scarf or scarf placed in front of the nose and mouth can be a useful first step" before being able to get a mask, she still ensures.

The town hall, which says to order washable cloth masks from regional or local companies, also explains that the police and municipal officials "will be responsible for reminding and explaining this recommendation to all those who do not observe this civic duty" .

As in Nice or Bordeaux

The initiatives around the wearing of the cloth mask by individuals have multiplied in France in recent days, whether it is to oblige them, as in Sceaux or soon in Nice, or to recommend this practice to them. The city and the Metropolis of Bordeaux have thus decided to equip the 800,000 inhabitants of the agglomeration with cloth masks, which they will order from local businesses, but without making its port binding.

This morning, @ARS_NAquit and @ PrefAquitaine33 remind us that the "best vaccines" against # Covid_19 remain confinement and respect for barrier gestures. And that "barrier or alternative masks are masks not of protection but of anti-projection". https://t.co/42B0HsFdaI

- 20minutesbordeaux (@ 20minutesbord) April 8, 2020

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