Compliance with the mask regime by residents of the city of Voronezh in public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

According to the results of the study, it was found that from 15.10.20 to 21.10.20. -the time of the beginning of the second wave of the rise in morbidity -significantly more often in public transport people observed the mask regime, but a third were without masks (p <0.0001). From 22.10.20 to 28.10.20 -the period of transfer of schoolchildren and students of the city to a distance learning format -reliably more often people in public transport were without masks (p <0.0001).The change in the structure of observance of the mask regime in public transport, on the one hand, can be explained by a sharp decrease in passenger traffic, the lack of control by drivers (cashiers), on the other hand, by the lack of commitment of city residents to comply with the requirements of sanitary legislation.