The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) decided to The use of face masks is mandatory in certain situations by an “advancement” of the flu virus, as explained this Friday by the interim minister of the portfolio, José Luis Satdjián. “This year we are seeing that there is an overtaking, there is greater circulation in the months of May and June,” he said..
The situation is added to that generated by the coronavirus, and the hierarch explained it this way: “We are, at this moment, going through a circulation of coinfectionsof two variants that are the covid-19 and the fluwith which it seems opportune to us from the MSP again to make a emphasis in the use of the mask.
In that line, closed spaces, where there are crowds, in public passenger transport, or where there may be people who are vulnerable, the use of the protection measure was recommended again.
“In health centers there is a multiplicity of factors that make it a place of risk. In waiting rooms, in pharmacies, in doctors’ offices, there may be factors that can predetermine contagion. That is why we established the obligation”, said Satdjián, consulted by the press.
The new regulations
The mask is mandatory for a person who, without an established diagnosis, presents respiratory symptoms and be in contact with other people.
Its use is mandatory for the entry of health centersboth users and companions or providers.
It is also mandatory for health personnel who regularly attend to the public, and officials in charge of caring for “vulnerable groups”.
The MSP also ordered the recommendation of its use to those who, without presenting symptoms: are users of collective transport, at all levels; are users of shelters or detention facilities; are in spaces where “the occurrence of a acute respiratory disease outbreak; are in the care of unvaccinated persons (including children 5 years of age); are in closed spaces with agglomeration of people; engaged in the preparation or handling of food.
