When and where should the mask be worn?
Respiratory protective devices (better known as masks) must be worn outdoors throughout the country. In addition, they must be worn in all indoor places other than your home, including public transport (airplanes, trains, buses).
However, the obligation is not foreseen for:
– children under 6 years of age;
– people who, due to their disability or pathology, cannot wear the mask;
– operators or people who, to assist a person with disabilities, cannot in turn wear a mask (for example: who has to speak in the LIS with a deaf person).
Furthermore, it is not mandatory to wear a mask, both outdoors and indoors:
– while doing sports;
– while eating or drinking, in the places and times in which it is allowed;
– when, due to the characteristics of the places or the factual circumstances, isolation from non-cohabiting people is continuously guaranteed.
As regards the performance of the work activity, the mask is mandatory in the situations envisaged by the specific sector protocols.
However, the use of masks is strongly recommended even inside private homes, in the presence of non-cohabiting people.
Is it mandatory to use a specific type of mask?
The legislation provides for the obligation to wear a mask FFP2 in specific situations:
– for shows open to the public that take place indoors or outdoors in theatrical halls, concert halls, cinemas, entertainment venues and live music and in other similar venues;
– for sporting events and competitions that take place indoors or outdoors
– for accessing and using: commercial flights; ships and ferries used for interregional transport services; trains used in interregional, Intercity, Intercity Night and High Speed passenger transport services; buses and coaches for transport services between more than two regions; buses and coaches used for rental services with driver; cable cars, gondola lifts and chairlifts if used with closing of the screen domes; means of local or regional public transport;
– for people who have had close contact with a confirmed positive COVID-19 case and who, on the basis of the regulations in force, are not subject to quarantine but only to self-monitoring, up to the tenth day following the last exposure to positive subject.
The surgical masks – or in any case a device that confers superior protection such as FFP2 masks – must be worn in the context of economic and social activities (for example catering, tourist and hospitality activities, wellness centers, personal services, retail trade, museums, exhibitions , cultural clubs, conferences and congresses, etc.) in the situations envisaged in the sector protocols.