Sunday, 26 April 2020

Sunday, April 26/2020


Day three of compulsory face mask wearing outside. Have noticed most passing the door are wearing masks. Entirely possible that those not doing so have masks with them but feel that there is no point wearing them when alone on the street and will slide them on when they reach a shop. Not technically legal but short of highly dangerous behaviour. The police do regularly arrest and charge people for violations of this and other coronavirus regulations though, and issue daily reports. Today’s Cyprus Mail (South) refers to 12 fines yesterday here in the North for failure to wear masks in public. Probably accurate, but the accompanying photo can’t have been from anywhere in the North in the last few weeks. Can’t identify the location. Possibly Lefkoşa covered market? But as we are only permitted to go to grocery stores, banks and pharmacies the photo is probably file and most likely from the South. A detail unlikely to have disturbed the Cyprus Mail.