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Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19)
Free masks: for whom?
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Masks are mandatory, but masks are not free. Nevertheless, there are exceptions for some people: the most modest, the most vulnerable, health professionals, employees or public officials. Find with Service-Public.fr who can benefit from it.
Masks are available free of charge:
- individuals receiving the Solidarity Health Complementary (CSS), the Health Complementary (ACS) or the State Medical Aid (AME) as of April 28, 2021 masks will be mailed between may 27 and august 4, 2021 (three first distributions were made in summer and fall 2020 and in early 2021);
- the vulnerable persons may develop severe forms of COVID-19 that can be obtained from pharmacies on medical prescription;
- people with Covid-19 virus on presentation of the e-mail or sms from the Health Insurance or the positive result of the RT-PCR test;
- persons identified as by Health Insurance in Treatment .
In the context of work
Benefit from a distribution of masks:
- Employees and civil servants for whom masks are provided by their employers for the duration of their working time. These are paid for by the employer as personal protective equipment in the fight against COVID-19.
- Professionals in the health and medical-social sectors for which masks are provided by the State (temporarily until stocks held by pharmacies and wholesalers dispatchers are exhausted):
- doctors, dental surgeons, medical biologists, midwives, nurses, PCR testing professionals (24 masks per week);
- pharmacists, physiotherapists, medical electroradiologists, medical physicists, pharmacy preparers, medical biology laboratory technicians (18 masks per week);
- Audioprosthetists, dietitians, occupational therapists, opticians-eyeglasses, speech therapists, orthoptists, pedicures-podologists, prosthetists and orthotists, psychomotricians, chiropractors, osteopaths, psychologists (12 masks per week);
- live-in care workers employed directly by private individuals and working with the elderly or persons with disabilities for essential acts of life;
- family-friendly;
- service providers and hardware distributors (PSDM).
FYI
Vulnerable employees required to work in person are provided with masks from their employer for the duration of their travel time as well.
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