Monday, February 7, 2022

Spain to scrap outdoor mask mandate from Thursday

Spain’s Health Ministry announced on Monday that it will be scrapping its outdoor mask mandate and increasing capacity at sporting events from Thursday.

In December, Spain’s health authorities opted to implement outdoor masking to bring down the unprecedented number of infections being caused by the omicron variant.

The measure triggered a debate among both the public and experts on whether or not outdoor masking was effective.

“We know that transmission of the virus outdoors is as much as 15 or 20 times lower than indoors… of all the possible measures, this one would have had one of the lowest impacts,” Spanish epidemiologist Quique Bassat told the Nius newspaper last week.

“It’s like telling people to put on a raincoat to prepare for a hurricane. Seems like a bad joke,” Alex Arenas, a physics professor, said.

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