France begins to ease Covid curbs, including wearing masks outdoors

France24 says France began lifting coronavirus restrictions including mandatory outdoor mask-wearing Wednesday in a bid to ease citizens’ daily lives, dividing opinion as the country only last month reported record Covid-19 infections.

Audience capacity limits for concert halls, sporting matches and other events were also removed, and although home-working will no longer be mandated it is still recommended.

The move begins a two-part relaxation of curbs announced at the end of January — despite the country hitting record levels of daily cases last month — and comes as England and Denmark also eased their restrictions.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220202-france-begins-to-ease-covid-curbs-including-wearing-masks-outdoors