Italians will be free to stroll and visit relatives for the first time in nine weeks as Europe's hardest-hit country eases back the world's longest nationwide coronavirus lockdown
People wearing protective masks exit the San Giovanni underground station as Italy begins a staged end to a nationwide lockdown due to a spread of the coronavirus disease, in Rome, Italy, May 4, 2020.
But bars and even ice cream parlours will remain shut. The use of public transport will be discouraged and everyone will have to wear masks in indoor public spaces."There will be great happiness in being able to go running again carefree, in my son being allowed to have his little cousin over to blow out his birthday candles, to see our parents," the father-of-three said.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte began by putting a quarter of the population in the northern industrial heartland on lockdown on March 8. People pray respecting security distances in Rome's Santa Maria in Trastevere church on May 3, 2020, during the lockdown of the country aimed to curb the spread of the Covid-19 infection caused by the new coronavirus. Italy's economy — the eurozone's third-largest last year -- is expected to shrink more than in any year since the global depression of the 1930s.
"I am worried about the reopening. The authorities seem very undecided about how to proceed," 37-year-old Davide Napoleoni told AFP.
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