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		</div><p>Shrieks of joy rang out Sunday in the streets of Spain as children were allowed to leave their homes for the first time in six weeks.</p>
<p>The sound of children shouting and the rattle of bikes on the pavement after the 44-day seclusion of Spain’s youngest citizens offered a first taste of a gradual return to normal life in the country.</p>
<p>Spain has the second-highest number of confirmed infections, behind the United States.</p>
<p><em>“This is wonderful! I can’t believe it has been six weeks,”</em> Susana Sabate, a mother of three-year-old twin boys, said in Barcelona.</p>
<p><em>“My boys are very active. Today when they saw the front door and we gave them their scooters, they were thrilled.”</em></p>
<p>Wary of igniting new infection flare-ups, nations around the world have been taking different paths on when to reopen their economies after weeks at a standstill under coronavirus lockdowns.</p>
<p>The number of deaths officially attributed to coronavirus has topped 200,000 globally and at least 2.9 million people have been infected, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<p>Those figures are widely believed to understate the true toll of the pandemic, due to limited testing, problems in counting the dead and some governments’ moves to underplay their outbreaks.</p>
<p>Spain, Italy and France, which have Europe’s highest death tolls from the virus, all imposed tough lockdown rules in March.</p>
<p>All have reported significant progress in bringing down infection rates and are ready, warily, to start giving their citizens more freedom.</p>
<p><em>“Maximum caution will be our guideline for the rollback,”</em> Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez said Saturday as he announced that Spaniards will be allowed to leave their homes for short walks and exercise starting on May 2.</p>
<p><em>“We must be very prudent because there is no manual, no road map to follow.”</em></p>
<p>So far, Spanish adults were allowed out only for essential shopping or to go to work that cannot be done from home.</p>
<p>Children under 14 have been in complete seclusion, but as of Sunday they were allowed to take walks with one parent for up an hour.</p>
<p>They must be within one kilometre of their homes, take only one toy with them and are not allowed to play with other children.</p>
<p>Authorities recommend that parents and children wash their hands before and after outings.</p>
<p>Mr Sanchez will present a detailed plan Tuesday for the “de-escalation” of the lockdown for the coming weeks.</p>
<p>In France, prime minister Edouard Philippe said he will unveil the <em>“national deconfinement strategy”</em> on Tuesday.</p>
<p>It follows weeks of work by experts on how to find a balance between restarting the eurozone’s second-largest economy and preventing a second wave of infections that could overwhelm intensive care units.</p>
<p>French President Emmanuel Macron had already announced that France’s lockdown would start to be lifted beginning on May 11.</p>
<p>Mr Philippe’s speech will flesh out the details, covering health, schooling, work, shops, transport and gatherings. The lockdown has been raising tensions in France’s poorest areas.</p>
<figure id="attachment_150689" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-150689" style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-150689" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/coronavirus-lockdown-800x480-1.jpg" alt="Italy lockdown of coronavirus" width="800" height="480" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-150689" class="wp-caption-text">Italy was the first to lock down the country in defence from the virus</figcaption></figure>
<p>Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte is expected to announce more details easing the lockdown in the coming days for the first European country to see a large-scale coronavirus outbreak.</p>
<p>Several countries in Europe are already further along in easing lockdowns. Germany started allowing non-essential shops and other facilities to open last week and Denmark has reopened schools for some children.</p>
<p>Germany’s restaurants and tourism industry are among those still awaiting word on a way forward in Europe’s largest economy, but Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated that more major decisions will not come before May 6.</p>
<p>Germany’s top diplomat said Europe must move <em>“as quickly as possible, but as responsibly as necessary”</em> to restore freedom to travel.</p>
<p><em>“A European race to be the first to allow tourist trips again would lead to unacceptable risks,”</em> foreign minister Heiko Maas told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.</p>
<p><em>“We have already seen what a cluster of infections in a popular holiday area can do in the tourists’ home countries. That must not be repeated.”</em></p>
<p>Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte is expected to announce more details easing the lockdown in the coming days for the first European country to see a large-scale coronavirus outbreak.</p>
<p>Several countries in Europe are already further along in easing lockdowns. Germany started allowing non-essential shops and other facilities to open last week and Denmark has reopened schools for some children.</p>
<p>Germany’s restaurants and tourism industry are among those still awaiting word on a way forward in Europe’s largest economy, but Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated that more major decisions will not come before May 6.</p>
<p>Germany’s top diplomat said Europe must move <em>“as quickly as possible, but as responsibly as necessary”</em> to restore freedom to travel.</p>
<p><em>“A European race to be the first to allow tourist trips again would lead to unacceptable risks,”</em> foreign minister Heiko Maas told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.</p>
<p><em>“We have already seen what a cluster of infections in a popular holiday area can do in the tourists’ home countries. That must not be repeated.”</em></p>
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