Thu Feb 24, 2022 – 4:39 pm EST
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (LifeSiteNews) — Iceland has announced it’s dropping all of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, arguing that more people need to be exposed to the virus to acquire natural immunity in order to end the pandemic.
In a statement Wednesday announcing the rollback of its border restrictions and curtailments of public gatherings, Iceland’s Ministry of Health asserted, “Widespread societal resistance to COVID-19 is the main route out of the epidemic.”
“To achieve this, as many people as possible need to be infected with the virus as the vaccines are not enough, even though they provide good protection against serious illness,” the ministry added.
Beginning Friday, citizens of Iceland will no longer be required to abide by curfews or limit public gatherings to fewer than 200 people.
Iceland will lift all public #COVID19 restrictions starting Friday, saying that herd immunity is the way out of the #pandemic. #mandates https://t.co/PHS7B5jXQG
— Epoch Times Canada (@EpochTimesCan) February 24, 2022
Though it has enacted curbs on social gatherings during the pandemic, Iceland has stood apart from its European neighbors by refusing to implement vaccine passports.
Worldcrunch reported that Iceland’s decision
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