Bars and restaurants open again in half of Italy on Sunday.

In Venice, the Italians can have a cappuccino again in the piazza and meet for a pasta during the lunch break.

And that although the corona virus is by no means defeated.

On the contrary: the daily evaluations show that the values ​​are similar to the German ones and in some cases are even worse.

But while Germany has frozen in its tough nationwide lockdown, the Italians are proceeding according to a flexible tiered model. It is also fragmented and difficult to understand from the outside, which is why it is often ignored in the reporting as an example of a possible alternative to the nationwide lockdown in the second wave.