The early moves to relax such restrictions evoke a new turning point in a nearly two-year pandemic that has been full of them.
Customers at the fish market in Torvehallerne in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is no longer mandatory to wear protection mask anywhere in public in Denmark.Late-night disco partying. Elbow-to-elbow seating in movie theaters. Mask-free baring of faces in public, especially in Europe and North America.
But the U.N. health agency, ever leery about how a virus still spreading widely might evolve, warned about underestimating omicron. The most pronounced pullbacks are popping up in Europe, for many months the world’s epicenter of the pandemic, as well as in South Africa — where omicron was first announced publicly — and the United States, which has tallied both the most cases and deaths from COVID-19 of any single country.
“Now it’s time for us to take back our everyday life,” Norwegian Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol said Tuesday. “Tonight, we scrap most measures so we can be closer to living a normal life.” In Germany, where infections are still hitting daily records and officials are still concerned about a large number of unvaccinated older people, restrictions like curbs on private gatherings and requirements for people to show proof of vaccination or recovery to enter nonessential shops remain in place. The country’s leaders plan to review the situation on Feb. 16.
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