Berlin (Reuters) - A third of Germans wants to abolish the mask duty in the Corona-crisis, or at least loosen it. 19 percent of participants in a representative Online survey by the polling Institute YouGov on behalf of the German press Agency called for its abolition.

a Further 14 per cent of 2056 respondents are in favour of easing. To contain the Coronavirus is a requirement to Wear a mouth-nose protection mask in public transport and while shopping is in weeks. According to estimates by the Federal centre for health education, cloth masks provide no proven protection for the wearer, can reduce them, for others, however, the risk of infection by airborne droplets. However, a minimum distance of 1.50 meters should be respected to other people.

A clear majority of the respondents said, however, for the mask duty. Thus, 49 percent said the requirement should be retained in its current Form. 13 per cent are in favour of extending to other areas. In East Germany, more and more people for easing or abolishing pleaded than in West Germany.

Four out of five (81 percent), in part, according to their own information is always to mask duty, and a further 13 per cent. Only two percent said they were not to do this. The elderly were more to the rules than Younger ones.

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