The uproar caused earlier this week by the Govern when it announced that it planned to re-impose the use of face masks outdoors (even in the case of safe distancing), led to the decision being overturned just a few hours later, all the more so when the Congress of Deputies approved the Royal Decree-Law that regulates the non-mandatory use of masks outdoors and as long as the safety distance of one and a half metres can be maintained.
The Government has just published an Annex to the Consolidated Plan of Prevention, Containment and Coordination Measures to Deal with the Health Crisis caused by the coronavirus in which regulates the use of masks and precautionary and protective measures to curb the pandemic.
These are the measures to be followed
- The measure of maintaining a safe interpersonal distance of at least one and a half metres between non-cohabiting persons is mandatory at all times. It is recommended that this distance be increased whenever possible, especially in enclosed spaces with insufficient ventilation or when engaging in activities associated with increased production of respiratory droplets and aerosols, such as singing, exercising or shouting. Maintaining a safe distance does not make one exempt from the obligation to take alternative physical protection measures with the use of an appropriate mask, if necessary, and respiratory label.
- People over six years of age must wear a mask at all times, both on public roads and in open air spaces – unless in these cases they can maintain an interpersonal distance of 1.5 metres from other people not living with them, although it is recommended that citizens wear a mask in these places at all times-, as well as in enclosed spaces for public use or public areas of buildings, both public and private, when they are sharing the same space with other non-cohabiting persons, with the exceptions that will be indicated in the following paragraphs.
- The proper use of masks , i.e. covering nose and mouth, will be compulsory.
- The use of the mask will not be compulsory during the practice of intense physical activity, aquatic activities or use of wind musical instruments, as well as in those activities that involve a physical effort of a non-sporting nature, outdoors and individually, maintaining, in any case, the minimum distance of 1.5 meters with other people who are not cohabitants. Also exempted from this obligation is during the consumption of food and drink, but not during waiting times or after meals. Likewise, it is also not compulsory in natural areas or in the open air outside population centres, or on beaches and in swimming pools, provided that the number of people in these areas makes it possible to maintain interpersonal distance.
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