Coronavirus: Italy eases restrictions - 10 weeks after leading world into lockdown - BBC News

Ten weeks after it became the first country in the world to impose a nationwide lockdown, Italy has begun easing its coronavirus restrictions. Shops, restaurants, bars and hairdressers are re-opening and people are free to travel within their own regions.

Italy was the epicentre of Europe's covid-19 outbreak, and almost 32,000 people have died there. Now the daily number of deaths and new cases is at the lowest level since restrictions were imposed.

Meanwhile in Brazil, the health system in the country's largest city São Paulo is close to collapse, according to the mayor. Brazil has the fourth largest number of cases in the world and there’s concern that many in Brazil's cities have defied lockdown rules — including the country’s President.

Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reports from Mark Lowen in Italy and Katy Watson in Brazil.

[SyedAli-tcyu]

Italy fought.this pandemic has made me respect Italy and it's people.they had no one to learn from..

[Asherleo]

I can feel Italy taking this seriously and after lockdown is eased. USA have hundreds more thousands of death than Italy and they feel nothing.

Brazil president will definitely suffers something in the future as his people doesn't trust him anymore.

[guitounours]

Thumbs up for Italy, they're doing a great job in the end. A far better one than in the UK, where everything was going to be run so much better once Brexit was done. Or did I miss something?

[lusardi]

Good luck to Italy.. hopefully the worst is over.

[y.m.]

Well it seems Italy is really well organised now... let’s hope cases will continue to go down🤞🏻

[graham]

I'm happy to see that Italians finally have more freedom but I'm growing scared about the situation in Brazil.

[izabelafirmowska]

That kind of protections in shopping centres will never happen in England.

[Tysin]

Italy the only country to autopsies the covid 19 death n found out it is cause by bacteria. Ventilator are useless.
Much respect from India.

[alessandrobonavita]

I work in an Italian hospital in one of the northern cities most affected by the coronavirus. In a very short time, patients with severe breathing difficulties increased dramatically. I saw the terror in their eyes before going into a pharmacological coma and then being intubated. Now the situation has improved significantly, currently the very few cases of coronavirus no longer present serious disorders and are often asymptomatic. I hope this continues, we are waiting for the post lockdown effect.
I was happy when China was overcoming the worst phase because I had hope also for Italy which had hundreds of deaths every day ... now I hope soon the same for the most affected populations such as Brazil, USA, UK ... 💪

[thewrngchild]

Get well soon Italy. Beautiful country, beautiful culture and beautiful people. I will be visiting one day, and when I do, I will give a thought for each and every one of you lost to this evil disease. This virus does not care what gods we believe in, who we love, it came out of the darkness, and it is up to each and every one of us to send it back there, and keep it there.

Italy tried to warn us here in the UK, we didn't listen. We refused to go into lockdown until infection was widespread, now we have a very high death rate. However please keep in mind that each country records deaths in a different way. Some will appear to have more but actually it isn't the case, while others will appear to have less but actually they have many more. We were behind ALL the way. This plague hit Italy out of the blue, first of all, they only had China to look back on. We had many other countries before it really broke out here, we had time to act but we didn't, and as a result, many lives have been lost.

Pandemic preparedness should now be on the absolute top of everything we must plan for, it must be up there alongside nuclear war in terms of threat level posed. Public and healthcare drills are needed, where we spend one day out of many practising what to do if there is a pandemic in the same way schools have fire drills. Everyone stays at home that day and healthcare workers receive training on managing contagions in healthcare and care settings, and we are reminded of how many people we lost to this crisis, it is both a day of remembrance and a day of preparedness and we are reminded what we need to do in terms of reporting infectious diseases and controlling them.

[nathalie]

Can we please implement some of those measures in the uk instead of going for a la di da approach??

[CharmingMountain]

While here in Morocco 150 total deaths and you're not allowed out even for 1 minute. Disgusting, well done Italy, rose up from the ashes, no pun

[gracie]

"how many more people have to die for the government to take action" well boris should have done something before and he is claiming to save lives. i also like that you talk about the president not respecting social distancing but when boris shook coronavirus patients hands i dont remember hearing anything..interesting

[arturwojcieski]

Such inteligent and educated people like Italians let themselves to be stupefied to such Mamma

[TheDuckClock]

0:41 that's not how you wear a mask lady.

I lived in Brazilian Favelas for more than 30 years and I can tell that the poorest ones will keep suffering the most. Normally in favelas there is not even basic resources, such as water or space. Nor a good health system, security or any quality of life. I hope my people will not suffer much, but the scenario is brutal.

[rebeccagurrea]

St. Peter pray for us all.. God bless Italy, God bless us all

[PeterWuTravelandSocial]

It's time to travel to Italy this summer. 🇮🇹😎

[janeyre]

Se ho capito bene l'andazzo, sono passati da
"stanno esagerando, da bravi italiani"
a
"stanno crepando, colpa dei rettiliani".

Che bellezza!

[abdihashim]

Hi..italian i really prayed for you all ....but still God answered it🙏