While the curve of infections by covid-19 continues to decline, as well as the number of hospitalizations and deaths, at the same time that vaccination continues to rise, the Government is already looking towards an end to the mandatory nature of masks indoors. This has been recognized by the president, Pedro Sanchezin what will be the next great measure of a de-escalation towards the situation most similar to that before March 2020.
Less than 15 days after completing two years of the pandemic, the world has become accustomed to being in constant concern about the various measures that arise to stop the coronavirus. From the most severe confinements to safety distances, through the use of hydroalcoholic gels or masks, they have been gaining a constant presence in today’s society.
But little by little, as the cases decline and the population reaches the desired 80% complete vaccination schedules, these measures are beginning to be more useless, giving way to a coexistence more in line with what society was like before the start of the pandemic. That is why the importance of their entry, but also that it arrives from a point of view of health responsibility.
This will be the end of the masks in Spain
Something that Sánchez wanted to emphasize, hinting that the masks will no longer be mandatory indoors “very soon, on the horizon of de-escalation“A few words that also came this Monday after a meeting between the president and the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, who precisely took command days ago to abolish all restrictions due to covid-19 in her country.
With success, as the cases have been showing, so there has not been another great curve of infections, Sánchez will leave that in Spain this initiative is proposed by “the scientific community”. Some health experts who, since the beginning of the pandemic, have been vital in decision-making and thus, like the example of Denmark, closely watch the cases of New York, UK, Poland, Sweden or France where the use of masks indoors is no longer forced (the Gallic country has been the last to join, yes, demanding a Covid passport for it).
Easter is the most accurate date to think that indoor masks will no longer be mandatory
All of this indicates that “very soon” to which Sánchez referred will be around Easter and with the sight set on a spring of greater tranquility as far as covid cases are concerned. A moment for which the incidence is expected to have decreased even more, right now still included in a “very high risk” (613 cases per 100,000 inhabitants).
Thus, once the non-compulsory nature of masks outdoors has begun to be normalized again, the next step that the Government has detailed is the non-compulsory nature of masks indoors, which will give way to a barely visible situation in the last two years. All while the pandemic celebrates its second anniversary, with a radical change in modern society.