Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio.and
League leader Matteo Salvini both said Thursday that they hope
Italy can soon end the obligation for people to wear facemasks
outdoors, with COVID-19 contagion figures improving, a move
France has made as of today.
"It is the government's aim to remove (obligatory) facemasks
outdoors as of this summer and we are close," Di Maio, a senior
member of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), said via Facebook.
"We have been waiting for this moment for months and now that
the numbers tell us that we are overcoming the health crisis, it
is necessary to accelerate .
"Facemasks have been an essential tool to protect us from the
virus.
"Now being able to take them away outdoors is a first step
towards returning to normality".
Salvini said that he wants Italy to follow France's footsteps.
"I'll talk to (Premier Mario) Draghi about it," Salvini told RAI
radio.
"It will certainly be one of our proposals.
"If the whole of Europe is going in this direction, even in
places where the situation is not as good as ours, then we must
consider this opportunity too"..
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