As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing some lockdowns, while fears of infection made even some pandemic-wounded businesses reluctant to reopen
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In India, easing restrictions meant reopening neighborhood stores that many of the country's 1.3 billion people rely on for everything from cold drinks to mobile phone data cards. But the loosening didn't apply to hundreds of quarantined towns and other places hit hardest by the outbreak that has killed at least 775 people in the country and terrified its multitudes of poor who live in slum conditions too crowded for social distancing.
Elsewhere in Asia, authorities reported no new deaths Saturday for the 10th straight day in China, where the virus originated. "I really want to get outside, and Ema does as well," said Madrid resident Eva Novilo, whose daughter Ema is 7. But Novilo predicted "difficult situations" if they see Ema's friends and have to stay apart. "I don't know if we will be able to maintain control."
With gatherings banned, Italians celebrated the 75th anniversary of their liberation from occupation forces in World War II, emerging on balconies or rooftops at the same time Saturday to sing a folk song linked to resistance fighters.
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