Always more recommendations, but no obligation.

The Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune reiterated on Friday the call for wearing a mask in transport when leaving on vacation while the cases of Covid-19 are soaring in the territory.

“I invite everyone to do so.

We do not need to put a national obligation, we simply need to encourage (…) to wear the mask, “said the minister on BFMTV / RMC.

"So a very clear call for responsibility, this weekend of major holiday departures, particularly in stations, in airports, obviously in the trains and planes themselves, to wear the mask", he said. added.

The French are “all at the same time more used to and tired of this epidemic and these successive waves.

We are not at all in the situation that we have known in previous summers, ”he recalled.

Cases on the rise

The head of government Elisabeth Borne had already called for vigilance on Wednesday as the epidemic starts again.

The number of new Covid-19 contaminations has risen to 161,265 over the past twenty-four hours, according to data from Public Health France published Thursday evening, after 154,615 the day before.

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