Spain splutters over another cover-up: As left-wing 政府 課すs return of 直面する masks in hospitals with Covid 事例／患者s 殺到するing, fed-up Spaniards 攻撃する，衝突する out at '全体主義'... but health 大臣 主張するs there's 'no big 演劇'

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As he reached into his pocket to put on a mask once more to go into the Quironsalud Hospital Marbella, Javi Romero said he felt like he was a pawn in a political game.

Spain's left-wing 少数，小数派 連立政権?brought 支援する compulsory masks in hospitals and health centres on Wednesday to 戦闘 a flu 疫病／流行性の and rising Covid-19 事例／患者s but the move has divided opinion.

'This is all about politics for me. The 政治家，政治屋s tell us we must wear 直面する masks and then they can just wash their 手渡すs when the 率 of 感染s goes up and say, "We've done our 職業",' Mr Romero told Mailonline.

'I don't think the 直面する masks do the 職業 we're told they do. I didn't support the use of 直面する masks when we had the Covid lockdown so I certainly don't agree with their reintroduction now, even if it is in just hospitals and health centres.'

For some, the compulsory return of 直面する covering was an unwelcome 思い出の品 of the strict lockdown 課すd by the Spanish 政府 during the coronavirus pandemic which 軍隊d families to stay indoors for weeks.

Spain 's left-wing 少数，小数派 連立政権 brought 支援する compulsory masks in hospitals and health centres on Wednesday to 戦闘 a flu 疫病／流行性の and rising Covid 事例／患者s but the move has divided opinion. Pictured: Women wearing masks leave a health centre in Spain

FLASHBACK 2020: 医療の?労働者s wearing 保護の 控訴s …に出席する to COVID-19 coronavirus 患者s at the 集中的な 部隊 Care of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona on April 6, 2020

Graph shows spike in hospital 事例／患者s 伴う／関わるing respiratory 事例／患者s

However, others welcomed the move after flu and Covid 事例／患者s had left hospitals and doctors' 外科s unable to 対処する with a rise in 患者s.

Grim television 報告（する）／憶測s during Christmas showed 患者s 列ing up to be 扱う／治療するd in hospitals across the country.

The 義務的な return of masks in hospitals and health centres, which was 発表するd on Wednesday for a two-week period, has 誘発するd a political 列／漕ぐ／騒動 and 分裂（する） 専門家s.

Some 専門家s 主張するd it was an unneeded 手段 brought in by the new left-wing 政府 which seemed like the work of a nanny 明言する／公表する.

Two opinion 投票s 設立する more people were against the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to make masks obligatory than supported the 手段.

地域の 政府s in Madrid and the Basque Country have …に反対するd the move.

Spain's health 大臣 Monica Garc?a said it was a 'ありふれた-sense' 手段 while 事例／患者s of flu and Covid were stubbornly high and with the return to school of millions of children on Monday.

'We are talking about putting on a mask when you enter a health centre and taking it off when you leave,' Health 大臣 Monica Garcia told Cadena Ser 無線で通信する. 'I don't think it is any 演劇. It is a basic and simple 手段 of the first order.'?

Covid 事例／患者s were still rising in Spain, but the flu 疫病／流行性の had reached its 頂点（に達する）, the Spanish health 省 said on Thursday.

Covid 事例／患者s rose by six per cent, to 98.8 事例／患者s per 100,000 in the first week of January, health 省 data showed. Hospitalisations for all respiratory ウイルスs, 特に の中で the 年輩の, rose 9.1%, to 33.5 事例／患者s per 100,000.

Javi Romero:?'This is all about politics for me. The 政治家，政治屋s tell us we must wear 直面する masks and then they can just wash their 手渡すs when the 率 of 感染s goes up'

Antonio Gomez:?'I don't think 直面する masks work. I think it's 恐れる that's 運動ing this and probably the fact that someone's 利益／興味d in 直面する masks 存在 sold again'

Nicolas Zagarra:?'I agree with 直面する masks 存在 再提出するd in hospitals. It's a place where there's a lot of 汚染, not just flu and Covid but other ウイルスs 同様に. The masks are uncomfortable, but I know people who have died of Covid and for me they can be the difference between someone living and dying if they're 攻撃を受けやすい and catch it'

Sophia Hardacre: 'I only 設立する out today think it's a good thing they've been 再提出するd. 'There's lots of ウイルスs around now and I think making people wear them in places like hospitals means they're safer places. Wearing one doesn't bother me in the slightest'

Jenna Callaghan: 'I think it's good that 直面する masks have been 再提出するd in hospitals, 特に because of the older people here'

The number of flu 事例／患者s was 387 per 100,000 inhabitants in the first week of January, a 落ちる of 10 per cent, によれば health 省 人物／姿／数字s.

全体にわたる, the number of respiratory ウイルスs was 935 per 100,000, a 落ちる from 966 the week before.

支援する at the Quironsalud Marbella Hospital, Spaniard Antonio Gomez, 36, from nearby Fuengirola, resented having to put a mask 支援する on.

Mr Gomez, who had been visiting his partner in hospital, said: 'For me having to wear 直面する masks again is stupidity.

'The 政府 has said it's because respiratory illnesses like flu are going up but the flu 率s always go up in winter so there's nothing new in that.

'I've spoken to doctors at the hospital today who also think it's stupid.

'I don't think 直面する masks work. I think it's 恐れる that's 運動ing this and probably the fact that someone's 利益／興味d in 直面する masks 存在 sold again.'

For Ugandan Oscar Kakemba, 33, it was an unwelcome 思い出の品 of what he had been through during lockdown.

'I'm not sure if you can print this but I think having to wear 直面する masks anywhere is b***ocks,' he said as he left hospital with his Serbian wife Rebeca, 26.

'We only 設立する out today and I was shocked.

'We went throu gh Covid for three years, we were told we had to have ワクチンs to travel and now we're travelling again with no ワクチンs.

'I don't think masks are going to change anything. It's really annoying. All this makes me 恐れる we're going to get told next there'll be another lockdown.'

Many 患者s at the hospital were British or Irish expats who were living in Spain.

Bea Talegon (pictured), 40, a 新聞記者／雑誌記者 and political 分析家, told Mailonline: 'Masks have not been shown to be efficient in 含む／封じ込めるing the spread of respiratory ウイルスs like Covid-1 9 and flu. 'I think that 課すing a 手段 which does not have 科学の support is a show of 全体主義 which happened during the pandemic'

Aitor Guisasola, 53, a lawyer from the Basque Country, said the way the 政府 made mask wearing obligatory without passing a 法律 showed 欠如（する） of 尊敬（する）・点 for the 支配する of 法律

Jenna Callaghan, 42, who comes from Ireland's second largest city of Cork but has been living in Spain for 19 years, said: 'I think it's good that 直面する masks have been 再提出するd in hospitals, 特に because of the older people here.

'My mum had a 落ちる during the night and I （機の）カム here in the 救急車 with her,' she told Mailonline.?'I've seen a lot of people coughing and spluttering since I've been here so I'm glad to see they're having to cover up.

'To be honest I'd agree wi th them having to be used in other small, 限定するd areas where there's lots of people, public 輸送（する） for one. But I wouldn't be in favour of them 存在 used in schools with children having to put them on.'

Argentinian Nicolas Zagarra, 24, who has lived in Spain for four years and had …を伴ってd his mum to hospital, said: 'I agree with 直面する masks 存在 再提出するd in hospitals.?It's a place where there's a lot of 汚染, not just flu and Covid but other ウイルスs 同様に.

'The masks are uncomfortable, but I know people who have died of Covid and for me they can be the difference between someone living and dying if they're 攻撃を受けやすい and catch it.'

Younger people appeared to support compulsory mask wearing.

Angel Delgado, 21, a student of mechanical 工学 from Galapagar, a town outside Madrid, 同意しないd, 説: 'I think making masks compulsory in hospitals or health centres is useful to stop the 危険 of 感染s in places like that.

'If they had made it compulsory in the street, I think that would have been too much because there is enough distance between people.'

十代の少年少女 Sophia Hardacre, born in Spain to an English mum and Spanish dad, said: 'I only 設立する out today think it's a good thing they've been 再提出するd.

'There's lots of ウイルスs around now and I think making people wear them in places like hospitals means they're safer places.

'Wearing one doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't find them uncomfortable.'

A woman wearing a 直面する mask leaves a health 中心 in Vigo, northwestern Spain, January 10

People wearing 直面する masks as a 警戒 wait for a doctor 任命 inside a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, January 8, 2024

専門家s were 分裂（する） on whether masks were a good way to stop the spread of flu or Covid.?

Rafael Toledo, an immunologist and professor at the University of Valencia, said individuals should take 責任／義務 for 保護するing themselves.

'The 義務的な nature of the mask does not seem 訂正する to me. It seems to me that it is an individual 保護 手段 and I think that we must leave a little space for individual 責任／義務 and not try to collectivise individual 対策,' he told El Confidencial, an online news 場所／位置.

However, the Spanish Society of Family and Community 薬／医学 (SemFYC) 支援するd the 政府's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to make masks 義務的な.

'In health centres throughout the country the use of masks should be 義務的な again during the flu 疫病／流行性の period,' said Jos? 損なう?a Molero, 広報担当者 for the society's 感染性の 病気s working group.

地域の 当局 have かなりの 責任／義務 for health in Spain's devolved political system.

Some 非難するd the way the 政府 had 課すd the 手段 as '全体主義者' after Spain's 少数，小数派 連立政権 課すd the 手段 にもかかわらず 対立 from most of Spain's 17 自治権のある 地域s.?

The Basque Country in northwestern Spain and Madrid …に反対するd the 政府's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to order masks must be worn, 競うing it would not stop the spread of respiratory ウイルスs which had already 侵略（する）／超過（する） health centres and hospitals.

Bea Talegon, 40, a 新聞記者／雑誌記者 and political 分析家, told Mailonline: 'Masks have not been shown to be efficient in 含む／封じ込めるing the spread of respiratory ウイルスs like Covid-19 and flu.

'I think that 課すing a 手段 which does not have 科学の support is a show of 全体主義 which happened during the pandemic.'

Aitor Guisasola, 53, a lawyer from the Basque Country, said the way the 政府 made ma sk wearing obligatory without passing a 法律 showed 欠如（する） of 尊敬（する）・点 for the 支配する of 法律.

'The 政府 has not 尊敬（する）・点d the 支配する of 法律 but 簡単に 課すd this 手段. They should have passed a 法律 to do this. It is what had to happen during the pandemic,' he told Mailonline.

Women wearing 直面する mask arrive at a health 中心 in Vigo, northwestern Spain, on January 10, 2024

People wearing 保護の 直面する masks leave a health 中心 in Madrid, Spain, January 10, 2024

La 地域, a 地域の newspaper in northern Spain, 設立する 78% were against the 手段, while 22% supported wearing masks in a 調査する published on Tuesday.

Diario Sur, a newspaper which covers the Costa del Sol, ran a 調査する on Monday which 設立する that 55% were against the 課税 of masks in hospitals and doctors' 外科s while 37% supported the 手段.

Six 地域s have already introduced the 手段 and masks have been 一般的に used on streets and public 輸送（する） and in health centres.

?の中で them is the Canary Islands, which sees hundreds of thousands of British holidaymakers visit every year.?