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Italy and Austria today began a limited easing of their coronavirus lockdowns as countries across Europe started taking the first tentative steps back towards normality.
In Italy, shops selling children’s clothes, bookshops and stationers were all being allowed to reopen today after five weeks of closure.
Computer manufacturers and paper production businesses were also opening again as part of a tightly controlled relaxation of the rules which still require social distancing and the application of strict hygiene practices.
Some provinces in Italy, which has been Europe’s worst-affected country so far, have also delayed implementation of the decision by their government to ease the restrictions in a further sign of the nervousness about the potential risks.
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