Mask required from 6 years in certain public places from Monday

The only exception to this obligation: the practice of artistic and sports activities, which exempts from the port of the mask.

Le Monde

The measure, contrary to the others in the same decree, had not been announced upstream by the executive. The port of the mask will be mandatory from 6 years – and no longer 11 years – in certain public places (transport, institutions receiving the public, markets), indicates a decree See after Saturday 1st January in the Official Journal.

The only exception to this rule “the practice of artistic activities” (singing, theater …) and sports, which dispenses its practitioners – children and adults – from the port of the mask when they adonent there, according to a previous decree .

In addition to this obligation include the measures announced by Jean Castex and Olivier Véran at their press conference Monday: prohibition to sell and consume food and beverages on board transport until January 23, 2022 included, establishment of gauges for large gatherings – 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 people outdoors – as well as authorization from the prefect to prescribe a quarantine of people arriving from abroad by being symptomatic or positive, or those do not able to justify a screening test.

/Media reports.