Italy, which has Europe’s highest death toll, will ease more lockdown restrictions on May 4 after nearly two months of lockdown
the nation by television on Sunday to announce lockdown measures enforced on March 9 will be lifted, with families being able to reunite in small numbers.
Bars and restaurants can reopen for takeout only, but food must be consumed at home or in an office until June 1, when sites will be allowed to resume their dine-in service.Funerals, which had been banned, can now resume with 15 people in attendance. Professional athletes can resume training outside their homes, but will not be able to resume group training until May 18.
Currently, grocery stores, bookshops and stationery shops are among the select retailers to have gradually reopened, but more retailers will be allowed to reopen from May 18.Italy has seen more than 26,600 coronavirus-linked deaths, but the death toll has in recent days reached the lowest level in weeks. Some 260 deaths were reported on Sunday, down from a high of more than 900 at the peak.Lifting of restrictions does not mean the end to social distancing.
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