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		</div><p>People across Europe and America were soaking up the sun where they could on Sunday, taking advantage of the first holiday weekend since coronavirus restrictions were eased.</p>
<p>All this while European governments grapple with how and when to let in foreign travellers, in hopes of salvaging the summer tourist season.</p>
<p>Police and beach patrols watched to ensure people abided by social-distancing rules and spread out across the sand and at parks.</p>
<p>The US is on track to surpass 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the next few days, while Europe has seen over 169,000 dead, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.</p>
<p>Across Europe, a mishmash of travel restrictions appear to be on the horizon, often depending on what passports visitors carry.</p>
<p>Germany, France and other European countries aim to open their borders for European travel in mid-June. But it is not yet clear when intercontinental travel will resume.</p>
<p>Spain, one of the hardest-hit countries and also one of the world’s top destinations for international travellers, says it will not reopen for foreign tourists until July.</p>
<p>To boost the economy, the country’s leader has encouraged Spaniards to start planning their vacations for late June inside Spain.</p>
<p>“<i>Come July, we will allow the arrival of foreign tourists to Spain under safe conditions</i>,” prime minister Pedro Sanchez said.</p>
<p>“We will guarantee that tourists are not at risk and that they don’t represent a risk” to Spain.</p>
<p>In Germany, domestic tourists will be allowed to return to the country’s Baltic Sea coast and to hotels in Berlin on Monday.</p>
<p>But tourism campaigns will require a new approach.</p>
<p>“<i>We don’t think people want closely packed big-city bustle at the moment,</i>” Burkhard Kieker, the chief of visitBerlin, said.</p>
<p>His agency has launched a campaign showing “<i>how much green space and how much water there is</i>” in Berlin.</p>
<p>In France, families flocked to the beach at La Grande Motte on the Mediterranean, swimming and sunbathing, with eight-square-metre spaces marked off with ropes and wooden stakes to keep people apart. Reservations were required, and there was already a two-day waiting list.</p>
<p>Other beaches in France have also reopened, but only for exercise, with visitors not allowed to sit or lie down.</p>
<p>In Paris, where all city parks remain closed, locals soaked up the sun along the embankments of the Seine River and lounged on ledges outside the Tuileries Gardens.</p>
<p>As of Monday, France is relaxing its border restrictions, allowing in migrant workers and family visitors from other European countries.</p>
<p>But it is calling for a voluntary 14-day quarantine for people arriving from Britain and Spain, due to those countries imposing a similar requirement on the French.</p>
<p>Italy, which plans to open regional and international borders on June 3 in a bid to boost tourism, is allowing locals back to beaches in their own regions — with restrictions.</p>
<p>In the northwestern Liguria region, people were allowed a dip in the sea and a walk along the shore, but were not allowed to sunbathe.</p>
<p>“<i>We cannot forget that the virus exists and is circulating,</i>” deputy health minister Pierpaolo Sileri said.</p>
<p>“<i>Even if the numbers of new cases are low, we must respect the rules.”</i></p>
<p>For the first time in months, the faithful gathered in the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square for the traditional Sunday papal blessing, but they kept their distance from one another.</p>
<p>And some 2,000 Muslims gathered for Eid al-Fitr prayers at a sports complex in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, spaced one metre apart and wearing masks.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in the US, restrictions have been eased state by state, although hundreds of people are still dying from Covid-19 every day.</p>
<p>The New York Times marked the horror by devoting Sunday’s entire front page to a long list of names of those who have died in America during the pandemic, with the headline “<i>An Incalculable Loss</i>”.</p>
<p>New York state reported its lowest number of daily coronavirus deaths – 84 – in many weeks on Sunday in what governor Andrew Cuomo described as a critical benchmark.</p>
<p>New Orleans stirred back to life as some of its famed restaurants and businesses opened for the first time in over two months.</p>
<p>While in California, where many businesses and recreational activities are reopening, officials in Los Angeles County said they will maintain tight restrictions until July 4.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump played golf at one of his courses during the Memorial Day weekend — the unofficial start of summer — as he urged states to ease their lockdowns.</p>
<p>Worldwide, more than 5.3 million people have been infected and 342,000 have died, according to the Johns Hopkins tally that experts say undercounts the true toll.</p>
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