This rule is explained by the crossing of the threshold of 50 infections daily for 100 000 inhabitants in the region.
The obligation extends throughout Europe. The mask-wearing becomes compulsory in the public space, starting this Wednesday, on all the territory of the Brussels region to combat the spread of coronavirus, has announced the regional government.
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It was already in most of the public places closed since July 11. The generalization of the obligation in the 19 communes of the region is explained by the crossing of the threshold of 50 infections daily for 100 000 inhabitants (more than 600 new infections per day on this territory of about 1.2 million inhabitants), according to a press release.
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Few exceptions
“The wearing of a mask covering the nose and mouth is therefore now mandatory for any person aged 12 years and over) in public places and private places accessible to the public on the whole territory of the Brussels-Capital Region”, added the regional government.
The requirement does not apply at this stage the provinces of the other two regions of Belgium, the Dutch speaking Flanders (north) and French-speaking Wallonia (south). In Brussels the regulation provides for exceptions, however.
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The port of the mask is not mandatory “during the practice of a sport, of the completion of a physical labor intensive on the public highway, and for people with a disability, which does not allow them to wear a mask or a face shield”, is it still shown.
The Belgium, the country of about 11.5 million inhabitants, has passed, Wednesday, the bar of the 75,000 people affected by the Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, a number of new, in progress since July. There were nearly 10 000 dead (9 879 identified Tuesday) is one of the highest mortality rates in the world. The counting of the belgian authorities is one of the most comprehensive in the world since are integrated into the deaths possibly linked to the virus without it having been proven by a test.
Europe mask
The mandatory use of the mask is rapidly gaining ground in the cities of Europe in the face of the sars coronavirus. On Tuesday, Prime minister Jean Castex, announced that he would ask for “the prefects get closer to the local elected officials for achieving the greatest possible extension of the obligation of wearing a mask in public spaces”. The Parisians must wear a mask since Monday morning in over a hundred streets located in the most popular areas of the capital
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In Spain, the mask became mandatory in all public places, except in the Canary islands archipelago, and the many nightclubs, which are considered as accelerators of transmission, have been closed.
