{"id":162638,"date":"2022-02-04T21:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162638"},"modified":"2022-02-04T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:30:34","slug":"covid-19-spain-to-drop-obligatory-use-of-masks-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162638","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Spain to drop obligatory use of masks outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/02\/04\/image-42537-1643970051.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MADRID, Feb 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Spain will end the mandatory use of face masks outdoors on Feb 8, a minister said Friday, ending a measure re-imposed in late December to tackle a surge in Omicron cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measure will be approved at Tuesday&#8217;s cabinet meeting, Health Minister Carolina Darias told Cadena Ser radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain first imposed obligatory mask-wearing outdoors in May 2020, but lifted it in June last year, although wearing a face covering was still required for indoor public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For several weeks now, we have seen how all the indicators are improving, day-by-day,&#8221; Darias said, referring to the incidence rate and pressure on hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks, many of Spain&#8217;s regions have moved to ease restrictions that were tightened in the face of Omicron, with the northeastern Catalonia region dropping as ineffective the requirement to show a Covid passport to enter restaurants, bars and gyms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The region has also dropped a nighttime curfew along with capacity restrictions in bars and restaurants, and will reopen its nightlife venues on February 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite high levels of vaccination in Spain, Covid cases exploded in Spain over the Christmas holidays, giving it one of Europe&#8217;s highest incidence rates, although that has now fallen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, Spain has registered some 10.2 million cases of the virus, and 94,000 deaths. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID, Feb 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Spain will end the mandatory use of face masks outdoors on Feb 8, a minister said Friday, ending a measure re-imposed in late December to tackle a surge in Omicron cases. The measure will be approved at Tuesday&#8217;s cabinet meeting, Health Minister Carolina Darias told Cadena Ser radio. Spain first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":162639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}