Scotland’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine passport scheme is to be scrapped next week, with other legal restrictions including mask mandates expected to be ended in March, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. Addressing the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Sturgeon said that the vaccine passport scheme, which required Scots to show their vaccination status before entering a nightclub or attending a large event, would be ended from Feb. 28. However, the app for the scheme will remain operational, allowing businesses to use it on a “voluntary basis to reassure customers” if they wish to do so. From March 21, “assuming no significant adverse developments in the course of the virus,” the legal requirement to wear a face mask on public transport and in some indoor settings will also be ended, she said. But she said the government “will continue to strongly recommend the wearing of face coverings in shops and …