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It was a moment awaited by more than 60 million Italians. This Monday marked a great revival within "the Boot" with the reopening of hair salons, bars, restaurants, beaches, and even places of worship. This is particularly the case of the world famous Saint Peter's Basilica, which welcomed its first faithful after 70 days of closure due to confinement. A visit necessarily special in the context of the coronavirus, and made even more surreal by the absence of tourists.
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A handful of visitors to the basilica
"I hadn't come for five or six years because of the long queues," confides to the microphone of Europe 1 Franca, a resident of Rome moved to tears behind her protective mask. "To be able to enter the basilica almost alone, for me who lives right next door, it's magnificent, it's really moving!" While the basilica welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, on Monday there were only a handful, watched by numerous police officers wearing masks and gloves.
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Reopening of shops with many precautions
Like Franca, many Italians left their homes on Monday, finally free to walk or go have coffee, since from today they no longer need a certificate to move within 'the same region. But of course these reopenings are accompanied by a series of strict rules, especially in shops: masks and gloves for the servers, air conditioning prohibited, and reservations required almost everywhere.
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Deconfining without taking risks is the philosophy of the Italian government. Besides, the latter is monitoring the daily figures of the epidemic very carefully, and he has already warned that in the event of an increase in contamination, the deconfinement would be purely and simply interrupted.