Luanda – The obligation of using facial masks in open places is no longer in force in the country since this Monday, May 16, 2022, being mandatory only in public and closed places.
The guidance is part of the new measures to prevent and combat Covid-19 by the Angolan Government, which declared, Saturday, the end of the Public Calamity Situation throughout the national territory, giving rise to the Administrative Management of the Pandemic.
The new measures, announced by the Minister of State and Head of the Military House of the President of the Republic, Francisco Furtado, kept the state of alert of the health authorities, which must continue the control and health surveillance.
For the specialist in Public Health, Jeremias Agostinho, in statements to RNA (Angolan national radio station), the new state of Administrative Management of the Pandemic does not mean that the disease is over, on the contrary, it increases the responsibility for the need to maintain bio-security measures.
