Italian doctors warn the country isn’t ready to resume activities like hitting the gym or going to church. “If we open up, after a month we’ll have to shut down again.”
As Italy prepares to phase out its lockdown, many Italians are looking forward to going to the gym, attending church and eating out with friends—the kinds of activities that have already resumed in South Korea, another country that had one of the first big coronavirus outbreaks.
But where South Korea has squeezed its daily new infections down to a low level, contagion is declining only slowly in Italy. A lack of preparations to stop infections from rising again after the lockdown is raising fears that Italy isn’t ready to...
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