Clement Beaune, Minister Delegate for Transport, reiterated Friday his call to wear a mask when traveling on vacation while also ensuring that it wasn't an obligation.
"I invite everyone to do so. We don't need to place a national obligation. We just need to encourage [...] people to wear the mask," said the minister on BFMTV/RCM.
He said, "So, a very clear call to responsibility, this weekend, especially in stations in airports and obviously in trains and planes themselves. To wear the mask." added. The French are "all at once more tired of this epidemic, these successive waves." He recalled that we are not in the same situation as in previous summers.
Elisabeth Borne, head of government, had already asked for caution on Wednesday in case the epidemic recurs. According to data published by Public Health France Thursday night, the number of new Covid-19 contaminants has risen to 161,265 in the last 24 hours. This is after the epidemic that killed 154,615 on the previous day.
