Businesses are no longer required to retain customer details, but face mask rules remain in place.
Most of the remaining legal Covid restrictions in Scotland have now officially come to an end.However, the legal requirement to wear face coverings in shops, hospitality venues and public transport remains in place.
Vaccine boosters have already been offered to the most vulnerable people and public health experts expect them to be rolled out to people in their 50s and 60s in the autumn.Asymptomatic people will still be advised to test regularly until 18 April - with tests free of charge - and people with symptoms should continue to get a PCR test until the end of that month.
The latest Office for National Statistics figures also showed one in 14 people in Scotland had Covid last week, a new record high and the highest rate in the UK.
Prof Bauld said: "If you talk to any of my clinical colleagues they will tell you it remains a very difficult time, and we shouldn't forget that."Vaccine protection could be waning and contributing to hospital numbers "in a modest way", she added. Some public health experts have questioned whether face coverings will have any effect on the jump in case numbers.
The Scottish Conservatives have described the retention of the mask rules as "a blow for households and businesses".Scottish Labour's finance spokesman Daniel Johnson said the challenges facing Scotland's economy "didn't start with Covid and they won't end today".