Heatwave adds to health alert as Europe masks up to prevent COVID


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  • Friday, 31 Jul 2020

A woman uses an umbrella to protect herself from the sun at Retiro Park, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain July 30, 2020. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho

MADRID (Reuters) - A heatwave hit Europe on Thursday just as Madrid made wearing masks compulsory to prevent a surge in coronavirus infections, and Julian Martinez said his beard wasn't making it any easier to keep his face covered in the heat. But the 60-year-old Spanish civil servant wasn't taking his mask off.

"I've been wearing a mask for so many days in the heat that it doesn't bother me that much," he said.

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