The Council of Ministers will foreseeably approve this Tuesday the end of the mandatory mask in health centers, social health centers and pharmacies, where they will become recommended. The imperative use of the mask will be maintained in hospital areas with critical and immunosuppressed patients, operating rooms and intensive care units.
Once published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), the masks will become "highly recommended" in certain healthcare settings with vulnerable patients and in case of symptoms of respiratory infection. Thus, a mandatory standard in the health and social health fields disappears since December 2020.
On June 23, Health and the regional councilors of the autonomous communities agreed within the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) to support the end of the mandatory nature of the mask in health centers, hospitals, pharmacies and health centers. sociosanitary
The administration took a first step last February when it ended the mandatory mask on public transport given the good epidemiological evolution of the incidence of coronavirus. Thus, it was withdrawn on trains, planes, buses and the subway, where it was imperative since May 2020, and its obligation in opticians, orthopedics and audioprosthesis centers was also ended.
