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This Friday the first heat warning of the year arrives in Spain . When the summer is still a month away, the warm episode of these days has forced the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) to activate this Friday the first notice for intense heat of the year in Spain, since between noon and 20 hours Maximum temperatures of 36 degrees are expected on the banks of the Ebro in Zaragoza, reports Servimedia.

With this panorama, there are many who wonder how to survive the summer heat with the mask on, since its use is mandatory since yesterday in public spaces. And not only in Spain. The Government of Israel , which has so far registered at least 16,650 cases of coronaviruses and at least 277 deaths, plans to lift some of the measures adopted to contain the virus, for example with the reopening of more than a hundred beaches, reports Europa Press .

The good weather, in fact, has led the Ministry of Health to exempt until today from the obligation to wear masks in public spaces, in schools and in buildings that do not have an air conditioning system. They will be necessary, however, in spaces with crowds of people, according to the Dpa agency. "The heat wave is also dangerous," said Health Minister Yuli Edelstein .

In Spain, and given the increase in temperatures, some regions have decided to make the hours of the walks more flexible. This is the case of Extremadura , which will allow departures with children up to the age of 14 from 14:00 to 21:00 starting this Friday, the 22nd, thus delaying that time slot by two hours to avoid high temperatures, reports Europa Press .

Similarly, the Andalusian Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre has again insisted this Thursday to the Ministry of Health that he respond to the proposal that the Board has moved to adapt the schedules of the walks of children and adults, so that they they adapt more to the high temperatures that are already beginning to register in Andalusia, since those that currently govern "are incompatible with the prevention of heat stroke" that the Ministry is developing, as it has warned.

"The mask can be harmful with heat"

The head of Infectious Diseases of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona , Benito Almirante , has ensured that the possibility of getting Covid-19 in the open air is less than 1%, so he does not believe it necessary to compel wearing a mask in the street, reports Efe.

In an interview at RAC-1, Admiral insisted that it is more effective to maintain the safety distance than to wear the mask and stated that, "although it is difficult to quantify, the possibility of being infected through the air should be less than 1% or even less. It is almost impossible that by breathing street air there is any possibility of transmitting the disease. "

"If the virus were easily transmitted through the air, the number of cases would have been 100 times higher than there has been," argued the spokesman for the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (Seimc) , who has assured the immense Most infections "are from contact with the family, work or health environment."

Admiral has also assured that "gloves are totally unnecessary", while he opined that "the use of the mask is conditional on the virus circulating. If in 2 or 3 weeks it stops circulating, the use of masks will be unnecessary, no It makes no sense. It can even be harmful to wear a mask in hot weather. "

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