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Date Published: 21/06/2023

Spain likely to ditch masks in pharmacies and hospitals this month

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The future of the last anti-Covid measure in Spain will be decided at the end of June

Spain likely to ditch masks in pharmacies and hospitals this month

Spanish health minister Jose Miñones has called a Council meeting for the end of June to discuss scrapping mandatory mask-wearing in pharmacies and other healthcare settings. At the moment, this last anti-Covid measure is still in place in hospitals, dental clinics, elderly care homes, health centres and chemists, although in practice the latter are no longer enforcing the rule in many parts of Spain.

Abolishing the law has been in the pipeline for several months, although the minister has insisted that masks will be discarded “in a prolonged, definitive or staggered manner” and only with the full approval of the Health experts.

And while it’s likely that in the next few weeks masks will go from being mandatory to a recommendation, Mr Miñones still believes they are an important tool to protect the elderly from respiratory infections.

“We could think about the day centres or where our parents, grandparents and elders are and if it should be removed there or not,” he pointed out.

In addition, he took the opportunity to reiterate that, although “most people already forget about the mask in pharmacies” they are still technically a type of health centre and, for the time being at least, they “are governed by the same rules.”

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