Jean Castex, confirmed on Wednesday that wearing a mask would be made compulsory in the "businesses and places open to the public" ended no later than the 1st of August, in an interview with readers of the Parisian.

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The assumption of such an obligation had been advanced on Tuesday by Emmanuel Macron, referring to "for example" the date of 1 August. "If there was before this date that the epidemic took, we would argue this deadline but this is not worth the trouble of distressing the population," said the Prime minister.