ROME: Stir-crazy Italians will be free to stroll and visit relatives for the first time in nine weeks on Monday as Europe's hardest-hit country eases back the world's longest nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
Weeks later Italy followed suit, becoming the first Western democracy to shut down virtually everything in the face of an illness that has now officially killed 28,884 - the most in Europe - and some fear thousands more. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte began by putting a quarter of the population in the northern industrial heartland on lockdown on Mar 8.
Half of the workforce is receiving state support and the same number told a top pollster that they were afraid of becoming unemployed. People walk at the seafront amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , in Naples, Italy, May 2, 2020. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
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