Thanks to the improvement in the health situation, the prefecture of Charente-Maritime announces the lifting of measures imposing the wearing of masks in public spaces from Wednesday 22 September.
No more masks in the street, in Charente-Maritime. From tomorrow, Wednesday, it is no longer mandatory. The prefect has just issued an order lifting, “at midnight, the obligation to wear a mask outdoors and in certain establishments”.
The decision was taken due to the improvement of the health crisis in the department. The incidence rate for Covid-19 currently stands at “38.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants”. The situation appears all the more favorable since “75.6% of Charentais-Maritimes have a complete vaccination schedule”, while “79.9% of (inhabitants) have received a first injection”.
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Where is the mask still compulsory?
If wearing a mask is lifted outdoors, it remains compulsory for anyone aged eleven or over in “all establishments open to the public where the health pass is not requested (stores and shopping centers, covered markets, reception of services administrative, religious offices…)”, specifies the press release from the prefecture of Charente-Maritime.
The mask also remains compulsory “in establishments and for events subject to the health pass, if the operator or organizer makes it compulsory” and “in public passenger transport, train stations and bus stops, ferry terminals and terminals”, adds the prefecture.
It also remains taxed from the age of 6 “in the closed places of schools”.
On the occasion of this decree, the prefecture repeals “the ban on the consumption of alcohol on the public highway” and calls “on the responsibility of all so that barrier gestures continue to be respected in order to protect people. the most vulnerable”.
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