Berlin, 8 April 2023 (dpa/MIA) - Germany's last remaining nationwide mask requirements ended on Saturday, some three years after they were first imposed to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Wearing a face mask is no longer obligatory for visitors to doctors' offices, hospitals and care facilities.

The provisions expired as set out in the country's Infection Protection Act.

Pandemic-related rules to protect vulnerable populations have been relaxed in several steps.

At the beginning of March, the obligation for visitors to hospitals and nursing homes to show proof of a negative coronavirus test was dropped.

Masking rules in shops, buses and trains have long since fallen away.

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