From today

Spain:


Face masks will be compulsory in public places indoors and some areas outside where 2metres can not be done

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that’s police facial recognition’gone for a button’ hip hip hooray

Spain moves to make face masks compulsory in streets

Spain’s government has said that it will extend the compulsory use of face masks, reports James Badcock in Madrid.

Compulsory use will be extended from buses and trains to all enclosed public spaces and even outdoors where the recommended safety distance of two metres cannot be guaranteed, as in busy streets.

The move signals the completion of a U-turn on masks by Madrid over the past month, from a measure originally considered necessary only for those who have symptoms of Covid-19.

Early in May Spain’s government ordered the obligatory use of face masks on public transport and in taxis as the country prepared to ease lockdown measures in some areas. Most of the country has now entered phase 1 of a three-part lockdown exit plan, but residents of Madrid, Barcelona and cities in Castilla y León are still unable to move freely around their home area.

When the health ministry finalises the new order under the country’s state emergency in the next few days, Spain will join a growing number of European countries that have made face mask use compulsory in virtually all public spaces, including Germany, France, Poland and Austria.

Spain recorded its lowest daily coronavirus death toll for more than two months on Monday, with 59 new fatalities to bring the country’s total to 27,709. Confirmed Covid-19 infections have reached 231,606 with only 285 new cases recorded on Monday.