A woman wearing a face mask passes by a mural featuring William Hanna and Joseph Barbera' s characters Tom & Jerry mentioning the safe distance to be held from each other -"One metre" - in Rome, Friday, May 15, 2020.
With 36 million people newly unemployed in the US alone, that economic pressure is building even as authorities acknowledge the risks of kicking off new waves of infections and deaths from a virus that people have no immunity to.Pushed hard by Italy's regional leaders and weeks in advance of an earlier timetable, Conte is allowing restaurants, bars and beach facilities to open on Monday, the same day that church services can resume.
Johnson said Britain was taking "baby steps" toward reopening, "trying to do something that has never had to be done before — moving the country out of a full lockdown." The US has seen over 88,000 people die and Europe has had at least 160,000 dead, including over 34,000 in Britain and nearly 32,000 in Italy.Professional football matches in Germany's Bundesliga resumed over the weekend, a move keenly watched by the rest of the soccer world as well as American sports leagues like MLB, the NBA, the NFL and the NHL, which all face major changes to their operations amid the pandemic.