The law requiring people to cover their mouths and noses in public places is being strictly enforced. Police officers have been instructed to pay particular attention to compliance with the regulations. This concerns Article 116 of the Code of Petty Offences. The law reads as follows:

Art. 116. Failure to comply with prohibitions, orders, restrictions or obligations arising from regulations on the prevention and combating of infections and infectious diseases or from decisions issued on the basis of those regulations

§ 1. Anyone who, knowing that they:

  1. are suffering from tuberculosis, a sexually transmitted disease or another infectious disease, or are suspected of having such a disease,
  2. comes into contact with a person suffering from a disease specified in point 1 or with someone suspected of having tuberculosis or another infectious disease,
  3. is a carrier of a disease specified in point 1 or is suspected of being a carrier
    —fails to comply with prohibitions, orders, restrictions or obligations specified in regulations on the prevention and combating of infections and infectious diseases in humans or in regulations on the State Sanitary Inspection, or fails to comply with decisions issued on the basis of those regulations by sanitary inspection authorities, is subject to a fine or a reprimand.

§ 1a. Anyone who fails to comply with prohibitions, orders, restrictions or obligations specified in regulations on the prevention and combating of infections and infectious diseases in humans is subject to a fine or a reprimand.

§ 2. The same penalty applies to anyone who, exercising custody over a minor or a helpless person, fails to fulfill the obligation to ensure that person complies with the prohibitions, orders, restrictions or obligations specified in § 1 and 1a or with decisions.

Remember to cover your mouth and nose when you leave home.