the mask ceases to be compulsory France starting this monday indoors, after more than a year and a half, with some exceptions such as public transport, health centers or nursing homes.
The lifting of this obligation, which had been announced on the 3rd by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, by the strong decrease in epidemic pressure of the omicron variantis accompanied by the end of the requirement of the vaccination certificate.
That certificate, which shows that you have completed the vaccination schedule or have proof of having recently overcome the coronavirusit was necessary for many acts of social life, such as going to a bar, a restaurant, a cinema, a concert hall, a stadium, but also to use long-distance public transport (plane, train or coach) .
Although the mask is no longer mandatory, for example in classes or at work, health authorities continue to recommend that positive or symptomatic people, as well as health personnel, wear them.
In schools, when a student in a class is positiveall his colleagues become contact cases.
That means primary school students should not be isolated but have to do a self-test. The older ones should not be isolated either if they are vaccinated, but if they are not immunized they will have to spend seven days in isolation and undergo a test before returning to the face-to-face course.
In France, the masks they had been imposed on public transport when the first confinement ended in May 2020 and in all public spaces in July of that year.
Sanitary certificate
As for the health certificate (which demonstrates having received a complete vaccination schedule, having passed the covid or having a negative test of less than 24 hours), it is still necessary in hospitals, clinics or health centers (except in emergency services), as well as in nursing homes or homes for people with disabilities.
The very wide use of the health certificate first from the summer of 2021and the vaccination since January 2022, generated a protest movement in France, which was diluted over time.
It so happens that lately A rebound in the incidence of the coronavirus is confirmed in France as in other European countries, which has once again exceeded 600 cases in seven days per 100,000 inhabitants. But in hospitals, those admitted are going down.
This Sunday there was 20,917 patients in hospitals, far from the more than 33,000 that were at the peak of omicron at the beginning of February. As for the people in the ICUs, they were 1,855 yesterday, compared to almost 4,000 in mid-January.
According to data from the French health authorities published this Sunday, andn France, 140,109 people have died of coronavirus since the beginning of the epidemic.