Lockdowns ease amid promising drops in virus deaths COVID19
MADRID - Spanish children ventured outside for the first time in weeks on Sunday, and Italy and New York laid out partial reopening plans as marked decreases in deaths from the global coronavirus pandemic stirred hopes.
"They are super excited, very, very impatient. They were up at 6:30 am, saying 'We are going out, We are going out!'," Inmaculada Paredes said in Madrid, readying to take her seven- and four-year-old children outdoors. Italy, which shut down in March as the disease's devastation became clear, prepared to let "a large number of companies" reopen from May 4.
But Europe's worst-hit countries -- Italy, Spain, France and Britain -- all reported drops in daily fatality rates Sunday, a sign the peak of the weeks-long crisis may have passed. Saudi Arabia said it would partially lift its curfew, allowing malls and retailers to open their doors for certain hours, but would maintain a round-the-clock lockdown in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.
President Donald Trump, bracing for November elections, has been impatient to resume business in the world's biggest economy, although he criticized Georgia's decision.
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