The Council of Ministers provided that the use of masks will be optional and will be annulled in the regions that exceeded 80% application of the third dose of the vaccine once morest the virus. COVID-19. In Metropolitan Lima and Callao, the use of face masks will no longer be mandatory.
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“The restriction on masks in public places is being removed, in the departments that have passed 80% in their third dose, in which we have Lima, Callao, Lima Province, Ica and Áncash. People who want to will be able to wear masks.specified the Minister of Health, Jorge López.
For his part, Prime Minister Hannibal Torresindicated that it was agreed that “in those places where 80% or more have been vaccinated with the three doses, the use of the mask is optional, whoever wants to use it, whoever does not want to does not use it”.
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The Ministry of Health (Minsa) He specified that although it has been possible to vaccinate more than 50% of the target population with the third dose once morest the COVID-19the population must continue to comply with prevention measures such as hand washing, etc..
Added to this is that last week, Minister Jorge López indicated that he expects 80% of the target population to have their third dose once morest the coronavirus (COVID-19) to evaluate the elimination of the mandatory use of the mask in open spacesas is the case in countries such as Chile and Spain.
After giving the possibility of eliminating the mandatory use of masks in open spacesthe director of Immunizations of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), María Elena Martínez Barrera, pointed out that it is estimated that in three months, that is, in next July, Peru would reach 80% of the population vaccinated with the third dose once morest COVID-19.
For its part, the Ombudsman’s Office rejected the proposal that the Minsa is evaluating to eliminate the mandatory use of masks in open public spaces. The entity indicated that as a precaution the maximum effort must continue to be made to avoid infections and deaths by coronavirus in the coming months.
Meanwhile, the dean of the Medical Association of Peru (CMP), Raúl Urquizo, proposed to the Minister of Health that the elimination of masks in open spaces in departments that have 80% of their population with both doses.
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Last March, a group of congressmen sent an ex officio letter to the president of the Council of Ministers, Aníbal Torres, so that he cancel the mandatory use of the mask in open spaces. Along these lines, they also asked that the vaccination card no longer be presented to enter institutions or commercial establishments.
The letter was sent by the congressman of Avanza País, Alejandro Cavero, and was accompanied by the signatures of Patricia Chirinos, Adriana Tudela, Norma Narrow, Alejandro Muñante, among others.
