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France to make indoor masks compulsory next week amid fears of second-wave of Coronavirus pandemic

FRANCE24, 16 Jul 2020
France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced that masks will be made mandatory in closed public spaces starting from next week, after first bringing the August 1 date, announced by President Emmanuel Macron. The country’s Health Minister Olivier Véran has also indicated that numbers show a rise in infections over the last weeks, amid warnings of a possible second wave of the pandemic.

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