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The mask is also making a comeback outdoors in certain departments, such as in Loir-et-Cher, where the number of Covid-19 contaminations is increasing markedly.
In the city center of Blois (Loir-et-Cher), wearing a mask has become mandatory outdoors since Monday, November 15. The prefect of the department issued a decree, but most of the inhabitants were unaware of it. In Loir-et-Cher, the incidence rate is 74 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, a rate lower than the national average of 100.2. The authorities say they want to apply the precautionary principle at the dawn of a potential fifth wave.
However, the decision divides residents. “They say to themselves that the rates increase again, I want to believe it, but it is not by putting on the mask outside that it will stop anything “, affirms a shopkeeper, while a passer-by confides: “It’s completely normal, as long as there are some people who do not get vaccinated, it penalizes others.“ Like Blois, several medium-sized towns have decided to reimpose the mask in certain public places, such as the markets of Saint-Étienne. (Loire).
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