Monday, 13 Apr 2020 07:43 PM MYTSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wears a face mask and protective gloves as he visits a respirators factory amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Mostoles, Spain, April 3, 2020. — Reuters pic
With signs indicating the situation was taking a tentative turn for the better, some businesses, including construction and manufacturing, were allowed to reopen. Lockdown restrictions have helped slow a spiralling death rate that reached its peak in early April, but they have tested the resolve of people cooped up inside their homes.
Carlos Mogorrón Flores, a 27-year-old civil engineer in Talarrubias, Extremadura, was planning to return to work on Tuesday after the holiday although he said that was still risky. After easing from peaks around the end of March, Italy’s daily death and infection tallies have declined but are not falling steeply as was hoped by Italians who have been in lockdown for a month.