Covid-19: Italy to end compulsory masks outside on June 28

Published on : 06/22/2021 – 07:29 AM

Italy, one of the European countries most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, will end the obligation to wear a mask outside from June 28, the minister announced on Monday June 21. of Health.

“From June 28, we put an end to the obligation to wear a mask outside,” Minister Roberto Speranza announced on his Facebook account, specifying that this decision would apply to regions classified as “white zone” “, where the spread of the virus is lowest, currently all of Italy except the small Aosta Valley, in the north.

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This announcement came after a favorable opinion in the evening from the “Technical-Scientific Committee” (Cts), which advises the government on the pandemic. He judged that the mask no longer had to be compulsory in the white zone, but that it should always be within reach in the event of a risk associated with a gathering.

Nearly 130,000 dead

Monday, June 28, all Italian regions should be classified as a white zone, according to experts’ forecasts. This Monday, June 21, Italy recorded only 21 deaths and 495 new cases of contagion in the space of twenty-four hours. Some regions recorded no deaths.

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Italy, the very first country in Europe to have experienced an outbreak of contagion in the first quarter of 2020, has recorded 127,291 deaths since the start of the epidemic with 4.25 million people affected by the disease.

A total of 30% of the population aged over 12 is now vaccinated, or nearly 16 million people. More than 46 million individual doses of vaccines have already been administered to a total population of 60 million people.

With AFP