After about seven weeks of commitment to homes, part of the European continent is beginning to cautiously sigh of relief, as the first measures to raise the home quarantine come into effect today in a number of countries.
In Italy, which has resumed work in some sectors, including construction and the auto industry at last, Italians will be able to visit families and gather in limited numbers. Public parks will reopen, while maintaining the constraints of social divergence, as will the work in the sectors of industries, construction and wholesale trade, and restaurants and bars will be authorized to sell orders that customers come to take from the place. As for the reopening of the doors completely, it is scheduled for the first of June, as is the case for beauty salons and hairdressers, and on May 18, retail stores will be allowed to open their doors, in addition to museums, cultural places and libraries, and school doors will remain closed until September.
In Spain, where severe stone restrictions were eased on April 26, it will be available from today in front of some stores to receive clients individually and according to pre-arranged times, and putting a protective mask is compulsory in public transport.
In a number of Balearic and Canary islands, it will be available for most shops, museums and restaurants to open their doors provided that they receive specific numbers, as well as for hotels. These measures will include the rest of the country in May, and after two weeks, cinemas and theaters will open normally. As for the schools, they are closed until September, and the Spaniards will not be able to move outside their provinces until the general quarantine ends.
In Germany, schools will open today in a number of provinces (Saar, Sachs-Anhalt, Priem), as well as hairdressing and hairdressing salons, places of worship, museums, memorial sites, zoos and amusement parks. Some have opened their doors before that, and will gradually impose the masks on transport and shops.
In Belgium, employees of companies that do not receive customers return to their offices starting today, and putting a protective mask is compulsory in transportation, and most stores will reopen their doors starting from May 11, provided that social restrictions are restricted, and some classes resume from May 18, provided that Students in each class do not exceed 10, and restaurants will gradually return to their activities on June 8.
In Portugal, car dealerships and libraries open their doors today, and small stores with an area of no more than 200 square meters and facing the street can resume activity, provided that the masks are put in place, as is the case with beauty and hairdressing salons, provided that customers come according to a prior appointment And some public facilities, such as tax centers, will open the doors, but work will also be restricted by the necessity of taking an appointment and putting a protective mask on.
In Greece, about 10% of closed stores will be able to reopen, including bookstores, barber and beauty salons, electronics and sporting goods stores, and gardening supplies stores.
To that, the data collected for the number of cases of Corona virus around the world showed an increase in the number of infections to about 3.5 million cases until yesterday, and data reported «World Miter», an international specialized in statistics, that the total number of people recovered rose to one million and 120 thousand cases, and also indicated that The number of deaths is close to 245 thousand.
Italy reopens parks, and resumes work in several sectors.
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Millions of Corona infections, and 245,000 deaths worldwide.
Schools are back in 4 German provinces ... and 10% of Greece stores open their doors.