Italy began today, Monday, the lifting of restrictions on public isolation, and allowed about 4.5 million people to return to their work after spending nearly two months in their homes. It also finally allowed families to reunite. To work in the morning, but the movement of cars is still noticeably less than usual before the spread of the Corona virus last February.

Governmental decisions allowed factories to resume operating idle production lines and reopen parks, giving children the opportunity to exercise and for relatives to meet again, but people must maintain distances between them and most stores will remain closed until May 18. Restaurants can sell their products to customers without letting them sit down to eat them. Schools, cinemas and theater will remain closed until further notice.

Italy has witnessed nearly 29,000 deaths from the virus caused by Covid-19, which is the second highest number of deaths in the world after the United States, and the daily death toll and new infections slowed at a lower rate than the government had hoped, which prompted the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to take a cautious approach to lifting restrictions.

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