The OMT states that wearing a mouth-nose mask in (busy) places where it is impossible to keep a distance is effective. The advice applies to anyone aged 13 and older, with the exception of anyone drinking or eating.
This concerns, for example, spaces at university and higher professional education institutions, in places where education is given in larger groups, at events that take place indoors, in the catering industry, in cultural institutions, in companies and office spaces, in indoor sports areas such as gyms (the mask may be removed). if you exercise).
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Also outside
The mask should also be worn in outdoor areas in places where it is crowded and where it is not possible to keep a distance of 1.5 meters. Such as: busy shopping streets, during sporting events, during demonstrations, in busy markets.
The advisory body states that the use of face masks must be combined with the other applicable basic rules, such as staying home in the event of complaints and tests, keeping distance and ventilation of indoor spaces.
In the video below, researcher Ruud Verdaasdonk explains how well medical face masks work:
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But this is an advice, what are the chances that this expansion will actually come?
“So far, the cabinet has mostly adopted the OMT recommendations,” explains political reporter Marieke Zilver. “So there is a very good chance that that will also happen with this advice.”
But the success of the measure does depend on how it is enforced, she says. “You see that the mouth mask obligation as it currently applies is hardly enforced. So that may have to go a bit further with an expansion.”
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