Obligation of outdoor masks, Lopalco: “Excessive with vaccine coverage”

Outdoor masks are mandatory, more and more cities are adopting them. “In the face of high vaccination coverage,” this measure “seems excessive to me. It would be common sense to promote its use outdoors only in the presence of severe deficiencies in vaccination coverage or in situations of particular crowding”. So to Adnkronos Salute Pier Luigi Lopalco, epidemiologist and former health councilor of the Puglia Region, commenting on the mayors’ request to the Government to introduce the obligation to wear an outdoor mask from 6 December to 15 January. Read also “Forcing a citizen who may have had three doses of vaccine to wear a mask while enjoying a walk on a not too crowded avenue seems to me really oppressive”, he concludes.