The center of Madrid is reluctant to abandon the masks: "People still do not have knowledge, this is sticking very quickly"

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It's 12 a.m. on the first day without masks indoors, but it doesn't look like it.

In El Corte Inglés on Calle Preciados, a commercial artery in the center of Madrid, the majority of buyers, almost 100%, still wear it.

One of them, Esther, acknowledges that withdrawing them seems

to her .

Mari Paz, who walks through one of the aisles of her shoe store, comments that "we have to keep maintaining it a little longer. I still don't trust much, there is quite a bit of contagion. We should have waited a little longer."

This is not the opinion of Manuel, a Mexican tourist, who does not wear it because he "has been vaccinated", but accepts that

.

An hour has passed, it is 1:00 p.m., and at the FNAC, customers seem oblivious to the new government decree, published today in the BOE.

Despite the different ages of those who congregate there, it is almost impossible to find the testimony of someone with their faces uncovered.

Manuel, 20 years old, complains about the lack of explanations from politicians about this decision: "

, that they remove the restrictions now and then they can put them back. They have not given an exhaustive explanation of reality They just tell us what to do. It seems to me that they change their minds very quickly and they don't know what they're doing either.

."

At the entrance to the music section, Pedro, a father surrounded by his three children, all without a mask, finally appears without facial protection:

celebrates.

“Although I am uncertain about where this can take us, if the contagion curve will increase.”

The relaxation of masks is breathed just 700 meters away in the Zara store in Plaza de España, the largest that Inditex has in the world, opened two weeks ago.

It is 2:00 p.m. when a large part of the clientele walks through the huge premises without a mask.

One of her shop assistants, Amanda, draws statistics by eye:

.

But Teresa, one of the clients, is out there, well protected and critical of the government's measure: "I think it's fatal that they remove it, people still don't know about it and this spreads quickly. I don't trust it.

. I don't see it right that they remove it so quickly".

While trying on some shoes, María Eugenia considers that they seem "good", although it is "surreal": "Yesterday we wore it, not today.

They are like tests, they have to make decisions to see how the stuff".

Her decision has been clear: abandon the mask.

In short,

among consumers.

Hours pass but in stores people protect themselves.

The mask, according to the decree that has entered into force today, will no

.

Carrying it will still be mandatory in hospitals, public transport, residences and pharmacies.

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