Lifted

Masks still required in schools, places of worship, nursing facilities, childcare facilities, and libraries.

Capacity limits lifting for restaurants and gyms.

Norway is lifting the remainder of its COVID-19 restrictions, crediting mass vaccinations for the country’s recovery from the pandemic.

Note well that this was the Democrat-controlled Virginia State Senate.

Canada’s Freedom Convoy trucker protest against vaccine mandates continued on Tuesday as mandates, vaccine passport systems, and other coronavirus restrictions began falling in provinces across the country – including Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island.

CNN's Leana Wen says science is different now, just before midterm elections.

Attorneys general from 16 states, led by Louisiana, filed a new legal challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandates for U.S. healthcare workers claiming the mandates are illegal and obsolete, as the vaccines don’t work against Omicron, the dominant variant in the U.S.

Australia's prime minister announced that its borders are open for those tourists who have been “double vaccinated” as of the 21st of February.

Sweden and Switzerland joined Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania, France and the UK in announcing they will lift COVID restrictions and open up their countries.

Coronavirus case numbers decline just days after scrapping mask rules.