Germany and Austria eye end to most COVID rules in March

Euronews says Germany’s leaders on Wednesday announced plans to end most of the country’s coronavirus restrictions by March 20, a decision that coincided with moves by neighbouring Austria and Switzerland to drop many of their curbs sooner.

A three-step plan was endorsed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the country’s 16 state governors as official figures show Germany’s COVID-19 infection rate beginning to drift downward.

“The peak has now probably been reached,” Scholz said.

The easing is to start with scrapping rules that prevented people without proof of vaccination or recovery from visiting non-essential stores and the lifting of limits on private gatherings of vaccinated people.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/02/17/germany-and-austria-eye-end-to-most-covid-rules-in-march