Italy to ease curbs from tomorrow

Rome, May 16

Italy on Saturday announced it wouuld ease travel restrictions from Monday, allowing people to move freely inside the region where they live. Travelling to other regions and countries will be allowed from June 3.

Italy imposed nationwide lockdown in early March after it became the first country outside Asia with a major outbreak of coronavirus. More than two lakh people are infected and 31,000 people have died, leaving Italy with the highest death toll after the US and Britain. But the government, led by Premier Giuseppe Conte, has gradually reopened the country as the rates of infections and deaths have fallen. — Agencies

Eatery turns away NZ PM

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