Spain might drop indoor mask rule in time for Easter holidays

Face coverings remain mandatory in Spain indoors – but this could be changing soon. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said mandatory masks indoors could be scrapped ‘soon, very soon’.

This comes as thousands of UK travellers are expected to travel to Spain for the mid-April Easter school holidays.

“Very soon, when our Health Minister says so, we’ll be able to remove the mandatory status of face masks indoors,” Sanchez said. He added that dropping the requirement is possible because of the ‘formidable response’ to the pandemic, as Spain now has the ‘lowest’ cumulative incidence of Covid in the European Union.

Spanish and regional government officials will consider the face mask rule at a meeting this week.