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A porter rests on his cart amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in La Victoria district of Lima, Peru, Friday, June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Pandemic becomes a patchwork of small successes and setbacks

By KEN MORITSUGU and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Pope Francis adresses doctors and nurses from the coronavirus-ravaged Lombardy region, at the Vatican, Saturday, June 20, 2020. Francis told the delegation on Saturday that their example of professional competence and compassion would help Italy forge a new future of solidarity. The northern region of Lombardy, Italy’s financial and industrial capital, was the hardest-hit region in the onetime European epicenter of the pandemic. (Vatican News via AP)

Pope hails Italy virus doctors, nurses as heroes at Vatican

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, left, is flanked by Erasmo Palazzotto, President of a Parliamentary investigative commission on the slain of Giulio Regeni, at the Senate in Rome, Thursday, June 18, 2020. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte was heard by a Parliamentary investigative commission on the slain of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni who was murdered in Cairo in 2016. Giulio Regeni, 28, an Italian doctoral student disappeared in Cairo on Jan. 25, the anniversary of Egypt's 2011 uprising, a day when security forces were on high alert and on the streets in force to prevent any demonstrations or protests. His body, stabbed repeatedly and exhibiting cigarette burns and other signs of torture, was reported found on Feb. 3. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Italy pressed on arms sale to Egypt amid torture-murder case

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 4, 2020 file photo, a child looks at a sealed-off playground at Rome's Villa Pamphili park as the park reopened after several weeks of closure, part of nationwide limited easing of some coronavirus lockdown restrictions, in Rome. A national survey of the psychological impact of coronavirus lockdowns on Italian children presented in Rome on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, has quantified what many parents noticed offhand during weeks cooped up at home: Their kids were more irritable, had trouble sleeping and for some of the youngest, wept inconsolably and regressed developmentally. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy survey finds irritability, anxiety in locked-down kids

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Carmela Bergamelli, 87, sits in a wheelchair at a safe distance as she talks to her family at the Martino Zanchi Foundation nursing home in Alzano Lombardo, Italy, Friday, May 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

AP PHOTOS: Nursing home residents allowed comfort of family

By LUCA BRUNO and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks at a press conference on the reopening after the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, Saturday, May 16, 2020, in Rome, Italy. (LaPresse via AP, Pool)

Prosecutors question Italy’s Conte over slow virus lockdowns

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italy detains 10 Nigerians accused in human trafficking ring

Associated Press

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, welcomes his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Athens, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Costas Baltas /Pool via AP)

Minister: Greece to lift restrictions for Italian tourists

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

A health worker give instructions to members of Da Costa family after some of them tested positive for COVID-19 at their home in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

The Latest: Filipino leader says US unrest hurts virus fight

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Andrea Monti hugs his girlfriend Katherina Scherf who just arrived from Duesseldorf, Germany at Rome's Fiumicino airport, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Rome’s Fiumicino airport sprang back to life on Wednesday as Italy opened regional and international borders in the final phase of easing its long coronavirus lockdown, allowing families and loved ones separated by the global pandemic to finally reunite. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy opens borders ahead of neighbors, still eyed warily

By COLLEEN BARRY and ANDREA FOA and GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2020 file photo, a delivery man, who want to name Moise, wearing protective gear checks his phones during a nationwide confinement in Paris. France is rolling out its contact-tracing app aimed to help containing the spread of the virus as life slowly returns to normal while most of its neighbors, including the UK, Germany, Italy are also about to launch their own technology. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French virus tracing app goes live amid debate over privacy

By SYLVIE CORBET and KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2019 file picture, Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and AC Fiorentina, at the Allianz stadium in Turin, Italy. The Italian minister of sport Vincenzo Spadafora announced Thursday, May 28, 2020 that the Serie A will restart on June 20, to conclude the championship after the coronavirus stop. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Torino and Parma to kick off Italian soccer’s return

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Pope Francis waves as he leaves after a rosary in Vatican gardens Saturday, May 30, 2020. Pope Francis is reciting a special prayer for the end of the coronavirus pandemic surrounded by a representative sampling of people on the front lines in his biggest post-lockdown gathering to date. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, pool)

Pope presides over virus prayer in hint normalcy returning

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italy court rules Uber food delivery riders were exploited

Associated Press

In this picture taken on Thursday, May 21, 2020, Italian Lazio region's environmental agency biologist Salvatore De Bonis shows how they perform tests on sea water during an interview with The Associated Press on a Coast Guard boat off Fiumicino, near Rome. Preliminary results from a survey of seawater quality during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown indicate a sharp reduction in pollution from human and livestock waste in the seas off Rome. Authorities stressed it was too soon to give the lockdown sole credit for the change. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Italy’s seas speak: No tourists or boats mean cleaner water

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press

People hold a minute of silence for the victims of COVID-19 at Sol square in downtown Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Flags are flying at half-mast on more than 14,000 public buildings in Spain as the European nation holds its first of 10 days of national mourning for the victims of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Europe’s social welfare net shows signs of wear from the coronavirus

By Angela Charlton, Colleen Barry and Nick Perry - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2019 file picture, Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates at the end of a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and AC Fiorentina, at the Allianz stadium in Turin, Italy. The Italian minister of sport Vincenzo Spadafora announced Thursday, May 28, 2020 that the Serie A will restart on June 20, to conclude the championship after the coronavirus stop. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italy’s Serie A given green light to resume on June 20

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2018 file photo, Italian Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during the traditional New Year's concert at the golden hall of Vienna's Musikverein, Austria. Riccardo Muti will conduct a youth orchestra in an open-air concert launching the annual Ravenna Festival next month in what organizers billed Friday May 22, 2020, as Italy’s first live classical music performance since its strict lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Muti to conduct classical music’s return to Italian stage

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Raffle organizers Peri Cochin, left, and Arabenne Reille unbox the painting &quot;Nature morte&quot; by Picasso at Christie's auction house, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 in Paris. After an eight-week delay caused by France's COVID-19 lockdown, the Christie's auction house in Paris is hosting a raffle draw Wednesday for &quot;Nature Morte,&quot; an oil on canvas that Picasso painted in 1921. Raffle organizers say they have already raised 5 million euros ($5.4 million) by selling 50,000 tickets online for 100 euros ($109) each. Their hoped-for sales target was 200,000 tickets but the coronavirus crisis complicated the task. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

“Incredible:” Italian woman wins 1-million-euro Picasso

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, a man wearing a sanitary mask walks in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Italy announces fewest new coronavirus deaths in more than two months

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times