Jean Castex – Lemouton / Pool / SIPA;
Having become an everyday object for more than a year, the mask “could become a habit” to fight against epidemics of respiratory viruses, in particular influenza, declared the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, in
an interview published in The Parisian, this Tuesday.
For more than a year, wearing a mask has been mandatory in most cities, in transport, in companies and in shops to fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
Wearing the mask removed this summer outdoors?
“Wearing a mask will undoubtedly, in the future, be a natural means of protection beyond the Covid. Obviously not permanently, obligatory, everywhere and all the time, like today. But it could become a habit in the West, especially during winter flu, “he said, adding that he” hoped “, like Olivier Véran, that the mask is no longer necessary outdoors at the end. of summer.
On Sunday, the American immunologist Anthony Fauci, also medical adviser to the White House, also put forward this hypothesis in an interview with NBC channel : “It is therefore conceivable that for a year or two, or more, during certain seasons when you have respiratory viruses like the flu, people could choose to wear a mask to limit the spread of these diseases”, he said. he thinks.