FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks walk in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in France, January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - A French administrative tribunal on Thursday suspended an order that masks be worn on the streets of Paris, news agency AFP reported.
The mask mandate, imposed by Paris prefecture, the local arm of the interior ministry, had been in place in the capital since Dec. 31 in a bid to curb the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
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