Italy and Spain ease lockdown restrictions as death tolls declining

Italy and Spain ease lockdown restrictions as death tolls declining

Italy and Spain have begun allowing partial returns to work amid a fall in new coronavirus cases and signs that the pandemic is easing.

Spanish workers have returned to some factory jobs while in Italy, where the death toll is nearing 20,500, bookshops, laundries and children’s clothes stores have reopened on a trial basis, although it officially has a nationwide lockdown until May 4.

Spain was flattening the curve on the graph representing the rate of growth of the outbreak, the country's Health Minister Salvador Illa said.

The overnight death toll from the coronavirus rose to 567 on Tuesday from 517 a day earlier, but the country reported its lowest increase in new cases since March 18. Total deaths climbed to 18,056.

Shops, bars and public spaces in Spain are scheduled to stay closed until at least April 26.

Italy's Civil Protection Agency said there were 3,186 people in intensive care on Tuesday against 3,260 on Monday — an 11th consecutive daily decline.

Of those originally infected, 37,130 were declared recovered against 35,435 a day earlier.

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