Following two months of coronavirus lockdown, Italy has started to take cautious steps towards normality as their ease restrictions. Tara Pilkington brings you the latest.
This week, many Italians are able to resume elements of their life pre-lockdown as on Monday, bars restaurants, hairdressers and other retailers have been able to reopen as the country tries to revive its economy. Here is the latest:
- People have been able to buy takeout food and drink since 4 May, but from 18 May they can now visit bars and restaurants, as long as they keep to social distancing.
- Italy was the first country in Europe to enforce a nationwide lockdown and is now only starting to gradually lift these measures.
- Since 4 May, when manufacturing resumed, parks also reopened and people were allowed to visit relatives and partners, this was following a sustained fall in the coronavirus death and contagion rate.
- As part of the ongoing phase two, which is being called “living with the virus”, civil liberties now include being able to travel freely within individual regions and to see friends.
- Restrictions on inter-regional travel will be lifted from 3 June.
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