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Camilla Cocchi wears a face mask and gloves as she sorts out clothing in her children's clothes shop after it was allowed to reopen following lockdown measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, in Rome, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. In Italy, bookstores, stationary stores and shops selling baby clothes and supplies were allowed to open nationwide on Tuesday, provided they could maintain the same social-distancing and sanitary measures required in supermarkets. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy, Spain start relaxing coronavirus restrictions

By Jabeen Bhatti and Eros Banaj - Special to The Washington Times

A man wears a mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as he walks past the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Monday, April 13, 2020. The reconstruction of the fire-devastated Notre Dame Cathedral a year ago on April 15, 2019, was suspended last month due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Coronavirus restrictions force additional delays in Notre Dame cathedral reconstruction

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in a videoconference with World Health Organization (WHO) general-director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the Elysee Palace on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Paris. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

France extends coronavirus lockdown restrictions until May 11

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

66 migrants rescued in English Channel since French lockdown

Associated Press

People wearing face masks walk at a downtown street in Hong Kong Monday, April 6, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

The Latest: Bars, clubs in Seoul closed to halt virus spread

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A food delivery rider passes by a banner reading ' Stronger together, all together we will make it ', in Milan, Italy, Sunday, April 5, 2020. The government is demanding Italians stay home and not take the leveling off of new coronavirus infections as a sign the emergency is over, following evidence that more and more Italians are relaxing restrictions the west’s first and most extreme nationwide lockdown and production shutdown. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Cracks in Europe’s shared currency reappear in virus crisis

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

Medical staff embark a patient infected with the COVID-19 virus in a train at the Gare d'Austerlitz train station Wednesday April 1, 2020 in Paris. France is evacuating 36 patients infected with the coronavirus from the Paris region onboard two medicalized high-speed TGV trains. The patients, all treated in intensive care units (ICU), are being transferred to several hospitals in Britany, as western France is less impacted by the epidemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)

France turns to speedy trains to catch up in virus response

By SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Police officers investigate after a man wielding a knife attacked residents venturing out to shop in the town under lockdown, Saturday April 4, 2020 in Romans-sur-Isere, southern France. The alleged attacker was arrested by police nearby, shortly after the attack. Prosecutors did not identify him. They said he had no documents but claimed to be Sudanese and to have been born in 1987. (AP Photo)

Knifeman in France kills 2 in attack, terror inquiry opened

By THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

Men queue to enter the &quot;Aurore&quot; center for homeless and migrants in Paris, Thursday, April 2, 2020. Amid the coronavirus lockdown in France, charity workers are preparing more than a thousand meals a day for migrants and the homeless on the half-abandoned grounds of a former Paris hospital whose patron saint was devoted to the poor. France's Aurore association, a charity dating back to the 19th century, has been serving meals at the former Saint Vincent de Paul hospital since March 24, a week into the nationwide confinement to stem the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

AP PHOTOS: Meals for Paris’ marginalized amid coronavirus

By FRANÇOIS MORI - Associated Press

City workers fumigate a street to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Europe’s hospitals bow under the weight of coronavirus crush

By John Leicester and Aritz Parra - Associated Press

Spanish WWII liberator of Paris dies of coronavirus at 99

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2006 file photo, former Syrian vice president and foreign minister Abdul-Halim Khaddam speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Paris, France. Khaddam who was one of the most influential figures in Syria before he defected in 2005 to France has died in Paris Arab media outlets reported Wednesday, April 1, 2020. He was 87. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)

Syrian ex-VP, foreign minister dies of heart attack in Paris

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Ffirefighters wearing protective suits wait outside a nursing home before disinfecting it in efforts to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, March 30, 2020. Governments in Europe's hardest-hit countries have yet to systematically test the residents of nursing homes or those who receive in-home care. In Spain, Italy and France, which together account for a third of the world's confirmed coronavirus cases, no one knows for sure how many people have become sick and died of coronavirus, especially among the elderly. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Nursing homes have too few body bags, many uncounted dead

By LORI HINNANT and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Real Madrid's Karim Benzema reacts during a Spanish Copa del Rey soccer match between Real Madrid and Real Sociedad at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Benzema makes unflattering comparison between him and Giroud

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

A Lawrence Memorial Hospital nurse works at a drive-thru virus testing facility In Lawrence, Kan., Thursday, March 26, 2020. Tests are by appointment only. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Coronavirus hot spots grow in middle America

By Kat Stafford and Martha Irvine - Associated Press

An elderly woman stands in a window in a poor area of Bucharest, Romania, Friday, March 27, 2020 as authorities try to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, one of the measures being forbidding people over 65 years of age to leave their homes, except for a two hour interval. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

‘Off the charts’: Virus hot spots grow in middle America

By KAT STAFFORD and MARTHA IRVINE - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 1984 file photo, French soccer team coach Michel Hidalgo raises the 1984 European Championship cup as he is carried across the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris. The French Football Federation said on its website that Hidalgo died on Thursday March 26, 2020. He was 87. (AP Photo, FILE)

Michel Hidalgo, who coached France to Euro 1984 title, dies

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron wears a face mask during his visit at the military field hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron launched a special military operation Wednesday to help fight the new virus in one of the world's hardest-hit countries. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Mathieu Cugnot/Pool via AP)

France pulls out military forces in Iraq amid virus demands

Associated Press

A man jogs in an empty Paris street, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron urged employees to keep working in supermarkets, production sites and other businesses that need to keep running amid stringent restrictions of movement due to the rapid spreading of the new coronavirus in the country. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

With church bells and candles, France honors virus victims

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FILE - In this March 24, 1938, file photo, German standard bearers parade past Maj. Gen. Fedor von Bock, commander of all armed forces in the Austrian territory, center, on grandstand on the Kingstrasse in front of the Memorial of Honor, as the troops reach Vienna. Beside him wearing overcoat is Dr. Seysz Incuart. World War II references are now heard daily, not because another momentous 75th anniversary, Victory in Europe Day approaches in May but because of the coronavirus. (AP Photo, File)

Virus causes surge in WW II references, but is it merited?

By TAMER FAKAHANY - Associated Press