From 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 14, the new Step-by-Step plan presented by the government of President Gabriel Boric began to take effect, which includes flexibility in the use of masks on public roads.
The new health strategy was announced by the Ministry of Health at the beginning of April, where they indicated that there will be three phases in the plan, which includes that the use of masks in open spaces will not be mandatory, as long as a series of terms.
The new Step by Step plan considers the phases of Low Sanitary Impact, Medium Sanitary Impact and High Sanitary Impact, where two of them allow the non-use of face masks in open spaces as long as a distance of one meter is observed.
In this way, people who are in Low Impact or Medium Impact communes will be able to circulate on the street without the mask after two years of total mandatory accessory.
Those who are in communes with a High Sanitary Impact must wear the mask under any circumstance. At the moment, no city in the country was left in that red phase.
In the first announcement of the new phases, the Minsal left all the communes of Chile in the green or yellow stage, so, for the moment, the mandatory nature of the mask was lifted throughout the country, as long as it is traveled in open spaces more than a meter away from other people. In closed spaces, the mask is still mandatory.
