Coronavirus: Italy begins to emerge from nine-week lockdown, world’s longest

Stir-crazy Italians were free to stroll and visit relatives for the first time in nine weeks on Monday as Europe’s hardest-hit country eases back the world’s longest nationwide coronavirus lockdown.Four million people – an estimated 72 per cent of them men – will return to their construction sites and factories as the economically and emotionally shattered country tries to get back to work.Europe takes first steps to reopening amid threat of virus outbreaksRestaurants that have managed to…

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