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Face coverings could soon be compulsory in shops and confined spaces, with the government set to make an announcment in the coming days, it has been reported.
More people are now returning to work, and the Prime Minister has come under increasing pressure to address confusion about what they should be doing when outside their homes. He now has just days to push the new guidance through Parliament before the summer recess begins.The change to emergency legislation is likely to follow Scotland’s, where face coverings are already mandatory in shops.
Dr Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, said the PM was ‘right’ to be reviewing England’s position on face coverings. He said shops may be an example of a place where it is not possible to maintain social distancing. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested more than half of adults in Britain who left their home in the week before July 2 to July 5 had worn a face covering. This was up from the previous week, when 43% reported doing so.This morning Michael Gove said he died not believe face masks would need to become mandatory, and said he trusted the public’s ‘good sense’ to wear one in confined spaces instead.
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