Italy awaits details of life after lockdown COVID19
ROME - Italy announced plans Saturday to set price limits on face masks and ramp up antibody testing as it nears the end of the world's longest active national lockdown.
Prime Minster Giuseppe Conte has reportedly been presented with a cautious proposal that involves a gradual easing of restrictions over four weeks. "The coronavirus has been weakened but not defeated," emergency response commissioner Domenico Arcuri told reporters.Media reports say that restaurants will only resume takeout service and almost everything else will stay shut on May 4.
Italy's "Phase Two" involves mandatory use of face masks in public places and antibody testing nationwide.The Italian commissioner did not say whether people would be required to wear them outdoors. But Milan's northern Lombardy region -- at the Italian outbreak's epicenter since at least February -- began the first wide-scale use of the tests on Thursday.
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