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		</div><p>Lawmakers voted on Friday to abolish most of Germany’s coronavirus pandemic restrictions despite a surge in cases with almost 300,000 new daily cases.</p>
<p>The Bundestag passed an amendment to the pandemic rules in a 388-277 vote with two abstentions. The upper house of parliament, made up of Germany’s 16 states, is expected to consider the measure later on Friday.</p>
<p>The changes mean that the requirement to wear face masks will be dropped for most public settings from Sunday, though they may still be required on public transport.</p>
<p>Visitors of care homes will also continue to need negative COVID-19 tests, but these will not be required any longer in other walks of life.</p>
<p>States can still impose new restrictions to curb outbreaks in virus “hot spots,” but governors have complained that this measure is unworkable given the nationwide increase in cases.</p>
<p>The country’s disease control agency reported 297,845 newly confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, and 226 Covic-related deaths.<br />
Health minister Karl Lauterbach defended lifting the restrictions.</p>
<p>“We can’t continue to put the entire country under a shield in order to protect a small group of people who are unwilling to get vaccinated,” he said. “The balance is being shifted.”</p>
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