We cannot stress this enough: the new coronavirus is still circulating, wreaking havoc in the United States and appearing to be restarting in China. According to a count of AFP, made from official sources, specifies the press agency, in the world, Sunday evening, 500,390 deaths and 10,099,576 cases had been identified. Enough to emphasize the need to continue to adopt barrier gestures: sneeze in your elbow, respect physical distance, wash your hands regularly ... but also wear a mask. One last recommendation to which this reader wishes to return:
"Can I be forced to put on a mask in a store?" »Bougeard
Here are the answers we found:
If yes. On April 28, during his presentation of the national deconfinement strategy (which was launched on May 11), the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, clarified this before the National Assembly:
"If the shops are going to reopen, each of them will have to comply with strict specifications, limiting the number of people present at the same time in the store and organizing the flows, in order to enforce the rule of the minimum distance of one meter per person without contact around it. "And, regarding the wearing of the general public mask," it will be recommended for staff and customers when physical distance measures cannot be guaranteed. A merchant may make access to his store subject to the wearing of a mask. "
We understand that a merchant is entitled to refuse you entry to his store if you are not wearing a protective mask against the Covid-19. On the other hand, as far as the obligation to put one is concerned, one can hardly imagine you forcibly applying one to your face!
Not if. However, it would seem that there is an exception to the rule of wearing a mask. For a certain category of people: those with disabilities. In Article 2 of Decree No. 2020-663 of May 31, 2020, which prescribes the general measures necessary to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic in the context of the state of health emergency, it is written that "The obligations to wear a mask provided for in this decree do not apply to people with disabilities who have a medical certificate justifying this exemption and who implement health measures likely to prevent the spread of the virus".
It can be, for example, people suffering from claustrophobia or from neuropsychological disorders (autism, schizophrenia ...), hearing, sight, etc. A document entitled Frequently Asked Questions-Deconfinement has also been published by the State Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities. You can find it here.
However, in article 1, it reads that, "in order to slow the spread of the virus, the hygiene measures defined in appendix I [" The masks must be worn systematically by all since the rules of physical distancing cannot be guaranteed "] and social distance, including the physical distance of at least one meter between two people, called barriers, defined at national level, must be observed in all places and in all circumstances". Including in shops, therefore.
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These two articles not having been modified in decree n ° 2020-724 of June 15, 2020, published in the Official Journal, we conclude that they are still in force. In fact, a disabled person, provided with a medical certificate, can be exempted from wearing a mask to enter a business, which however requires it.
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