Conte Notes Risk as Italy Prepares for Lockdown Easing

Conte Notes Risk as Italy Prepares for Lockdown Easing
Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte holds a press conference in Rome on May 16, 2020. Pool photo via AP
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ROME/MILAN—Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte acknowledges a “calculated risk” as he outlined a further loosening of movement restrictions on May 16, including opening borders to travelers from Europe from next month to unwind one of the world’s most rigid coronavirus lockdowns.

With shops as well as bars and restaurants due to reopen as of May 18, the government has also announced that people will no longer have to justify travel within their own region and will be able to meet friends as well as family.