Spain lives its first day without a mandatory exterior mask

After 401 days, from this saturday Spaniards can be outside without masksAlthough they will have to use it if the safe distance cannot be maintained, and also indoors, as approved by the government on Thursday.

The Minister of Health, Caroline Darias, justified the decision by the advance of the vaccination and by the recommendation of the experts. “It is a measure that brings us closer to normality, with caution“, He said.

However, people will have to carry it by hand, since its use is always compulsory in public transport, indoors and outdoors, if there are crowds and a distance of 1.5 meters cannot be respected.

On the other hand, stadiums will return to normal at the start of ACB football and basketball league and may receive the same influx of audiences as before the pandemic, as announced by Darias, although with masks if you can’t keep your distance outside or if it’s inside.

In addition, The objective is to relax the current restrictions on access to airport buildings.Until now, only people with tickets, active personnel, security forces and organs, and inspection officers were allowed.

Spain currently has a cumulative incidence of 92 cases per 100,000 population, a figure that has not changed in recent days.

And concerning vaccination, already reached half of the inoculated population with at least one dose and 15 million people have been immunized with the complete diet.

Hundreds of young people contracted COVID-19 after year-end trips to Spain

There are still a few end-of-year trips hundreds of students infected with COVID-19 in Spain after enjoying parties on boats and hotels on the Spanish island of Mallorca- Young people traveled to the Mediterranean island between June 12 and 18 and when they returned to their places of origin, contagions began to be detected, so far about half a thousand.

In Madrid alone, more than three hundred cases are confirmed and another 2,000 young people are in quarantine after their vacation on the island, according to the authorities in this region.

The regional government of the Balearic Islands, the archipelago to which Mallorca belongs, confirmed yesterday that the sources of infection were parties on boats and in nine hotels on the island, in addition to a concert with more than a thousand participants who was expelled by the police non-compliance with preventive measures such as safety distance and wearing a mask.

Health authorities in at least six regions from which students are known to have traveled perform tests to detect more possible infections and establish quarantines.

Many infected people are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, without needing hospitalization, but what happened worried about the number of cases, which is feared that it will continue to increase, and because of the image of young people, some minors, who have fun without taking into account the messages of caution from the authorities.

The British government announced last Thursday that it is including the Balearic Islands among the destinations, the only one in Spain, which it considers safe for its tourists, who will no longer have to quarantine themselves on their return.

British tourism is essential in Spain in areas such as the Balearic Islands, who are awaiting his arrival to reactivate a sector that was severely affected during the pandemic.

(With information from EFE)

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