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Will making face masks compulsory help us get back to normal?

14 July 2020

4:00 PM

14 July 2020

4:00 PM

The government will announce today that from 24 July face coverings will be mandatory in shops and supermarkets. Those who don’t wear one risk a hundred pound fine.

This decision is partly about reducing the spread of the virus – in a shift from the beginning of the crisis the government now thinks masks are effective in this regard, but also about giving people the confidence to go out.

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