TOLEDO.- The Minister of Health of Castilla-La Mancha, Jesús Fernández, defended this Monday that the widespread use of the mask must respond to “technical criteria”and has stated that the region wants to avoid “politicizing” measures to contain infections.
After the Public Health Commission postponed its decision last Thursday on the plan of measures to confront respiratory infections, and in which the Ministry of Health proposed a gradual tightening of the use of masks, Fernández has opted for implement the measures “with consensus, as was done during covid”.
Asked at a press conference about the Commission’s decision, the counselor stated that “there is the capacity to implement measures through technicians, including masks”, but he stressed that what the regional government intends is to “avoid politicizing the use of the mask”.
He recalled that there are “many more techniques, such as hand washing, proper sneezing or knowing how to isolate yourself”, but he asserted that “imposing use should not obey a political criterion, but rather a technical one.”
Likewise, he added that the measures document is being re-evaluated but “in line with technical issues.”
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