• Covid Back to masks in the United States

The Government has today decreed the removal of masks indoors, although with some exceptions: healthcare centers, including pharmacies, social health and public transport, including planes and ships when the safety distance of one and a half meters cannot be maintained.

The Executive of Pedro Sánchez has given the go-ahead to this measure after almost two years of establishing the mandatory use of this facial protection and when

six waves of the Covid pandemic have passed

.

Spain is one of the last countries in Europe to give its approval to the removal of masks indoors, since many states in our environment have been doing so since last January, even others,

such as Finland, have recommended , but not obligatory, its use throughout the entire pandemic

except for those over 12 years of age who have not been vaccinated and vulnerable people or those at special risk for whom its use was required.

Today, according to the latest record from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), dated last Sunday, this Nordic country has a cumulative incidence (IA) of Covid at 14 days of 1,083 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Apart from Finland, the first European country to decree the removal of indoor masks was

the United Kingdom

.

He did it last January, when the fifth wave of Covid infections was going through there.

Boris Johnson's Executive has not reversed the measure throughout this time, despite the fact that, according to the

latest data from the Johns Hopkins CSSE

, the country registers an AI at 14 days of

801 cases per 100,000

inhabitants as of April 17.

Denmark

(until last Sunday with a 14-day AI of 554 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the CSSE)

and Ireland

(AI of 672) followed in the wake of the removal of indoor masks

in February

, countries that were followed

in March, Belgium (AI of 1,055), Hungary (259), Romania (117), Luxembourg (1,942), France (2,645), the Netherlands (685) and Poland (41)

.

In this month of

April

,

Germany (with an AI of 2,240 cases), Bulgaria (126), Sweden (78) and Latvia (574) repealed the facial protection measure from day 1

, although in the German case the Government recommended continuing to maintain its use during Holy Week due to possible crowds in some spaces.

Throughout this month Estonia

(AI of 671), Croatia (277),

Czech Republic

(476),

Slovenia

(1,134),

Austria

(1,929) and

Lithuania

(689) also removed the masks.

Our neighboring country,

Portugal (with a 14-day AI of 1,120 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), together with Malta (1,466) and Slovakia (903), although they have relaxed some measures, still maintain the use of masks in interior spaces.

In the case of

Italy

(1,467), the Government plans to decree the end of indoor masks at the

end of this month

, while

Greece

(1,546) will extend the decision until the last days of next

May

.

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