"I'm surprised because I expected to see many people without
masks, but most are still wearing them," said Manuel Mas, 40, a
singer, in the centre of the capital, Madrid.
While masks do not have to be worn outdoors under the country's
newly relaxed rules, people still have to use them indoors or in
crowded outdoor spaces where social distancing is impossible.
Andrea Sosa, 20, a waitress from Madrid, said she would continue
to keep her face covered because she had not been vaccinated
yet.
"For me it's important to keep wearing the mask," she said as
she waited to meet a friend in the city's busy Puerta del Sol
square.
Spain's nationwide infection rate as measured over the preceding
14 days was 95 cases per 100,000 of population, down from about
150 cases a month ago, according to Spanish Health Ministry
figures on Friday.
Half of the nation's 47 million population have received at
least one vaccine dose, the ministry said earlier this week.
Some 3,782,463 coronavirus cases have been confirmed while
80,779 people have died from COVID-19, according to official
data.
(Reporting by Graham Keeley; Additional reporting Raul Cadenas
and Catherine Macdonald; Editing by Helen Popper)
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