Making masks compulsory everywhere bad for tourism, Balearic lobby group says


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  • Friday, 10 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks walk along the Barceloneta beach after Catalonia's regional authorities decided to make mandatory the use of face masks in public at all times, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Barcelona, Spain July 9, 2020. REUTERS/Albert Gea

MADRID (Reuters) - Making face masks mandatory everywhere is likely to chase off tourists when Spain badly needs them, the Balearic Islands' business association said on Friday.

Tourism all but shut down in Spain in March because of the coronavirus pandemic and is only slowly resuming.

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