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In this Monday, April 20, 2020, file photo, a woman gets a blood test taken by medical personnel at a converted gym, in Cisliano, near Milan, Italy. Italy’s virus reopening phase was supposed to have been accompanied by a series of measures to limit infections in the onetime European epicenter of the pandemic: the distribution of millions of cheap surgical masks to pharmacies and tobacco shops nationwide, a pilot project of 150,000 antibody tests and, eventually, the roll-out of a contact-tracing app. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP, File)

As Europe reopens, key virus protections are still elusive

By Nicole Winfield and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

This picture taken on May 9, 2020 and made available on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 by Suedtiroler Schuetzenbund, a group that rejects the legitimacy of Italian rule of the area that became part of Italy after World War II, shows writing with fire reading in German Iatz &quot;Now&quot;, in Ultimo, known in German as Ulten, in the German-speaking province of South Tyrol, in northern Italy. (Suedtiroler Schuetzenbund via AP)

Italy’s South Tyrol invokes autonomy to pry open lockdown

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italian police nab mafiosi to thwart pandemic exploitation

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Slight earthquake rattles Rome awake, no damage known yet

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FILE - In this August 2018 file photo, Italian volunteer Silvia Costanza Romano, left, poses with local resident Ronald Kazungu Ngala, 19, in the village of Chakama, in coastal Kilifi county, Kenya. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has announced that an Italian aid worker kidnapped in late 2018 while she was working in Kenya has been freed. Conte tweeted Saturday: “Silvia Romano has been freed. Thanks to the men and women of the foreign intelligence services. Silvia, we’re waiting for you in Italy!” (AP Photo, File)

Italian govt hails release of volunteer kidnapped in Kenya

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TOM ODULA - Associated Press

People ride and walk along the popular Navigli area, in Milan, Italy, Friday, May 8, 2020. Milan’s mayor on Friday threatened to shut down the popular Navigli zone of restaurants bordering canals after seeing photographs of groups of people sitting in groups without masks. Mayor Giuseppe Sala called the images ‘’shameful,’’ and said that after two months of a shut-down and 8,766 confirmed positives - 42% of the provincial total -- in the city of 1.4 million people that everyone should be aware of the severity of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Milan mayor lashes out at revelers breaking virus rules

By COLLEEN BARRY and LUCA BRUNO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, April 12, 2020, medical staffers walk in hall leading to the COVID-19 emergency ward of the Santo Spirito hospital, in Rome. After two months of nightly briefings with only male COVID-19 experts, female scientists in Italy have demanded the government listen to their voices, too. Female lawmakers and a &quot;give us voice” grassroots movement that has sprouted are lending support. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Women demand voice in Italy virus response dominated by men

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

An employee of Xochimilco's crematorium waits for a corpse, suspected to have died of the new coronavirus, in Mexico City, Monday, May 4, 2020. He is standing next to pile of discarded coffins that contained people who died of COVID-19 disease, and are waiting to be destroyed at the site. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

US infection rate rising outside New York as states open up

By NICKY FORSTER and CARLA K. JOHNSON and MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

Hanwha Eagles players wearing face masks line up during the start of their regular season baseball game against SK Wyverns in Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. Cheerleaders danced beneath rows of empty seats and umpires wore protective masks as a new baseball season began in South Korea. After a weeks-long delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, a hushed atmosphere allowed for sounds like the ball hitting the catcher's mitt and bats smacking the ball for a single or double to echo around the stadium. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: Macron criticized for opening schools next week

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FILE - In this July 18, 2019 file photo, the pack rides during the twelfth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 209,5 kilometers (130 miles) with start in Toulouse and finish in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France. This year's Tour de France will now start on Aug. 29 in Nice and finish on Sept. 20 in Paris and will be followed by cycling's other two major races. The Tour could not start as scheduled on June 27 because of restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/ Christophe Ena, File)

Giro and Vuelta to overlap in revised UCI cycling calendar

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, the limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill is riding on the back of the car, Nellie Connally, wife of Texas Gov. John Connally, bends over her wounded husband, and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president. (AP Photo/Justin Newman, File)

National traumas familiar for virus-hit, unscathed countries

By TAMER FAKAHANY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2018 file photo, the Ferrari Monza SP1 car is displayed in Maranello, Italy. Luxury sports carmaker Ferrari on Monday, May 4, 2020, significantly lowered full-year earnings guidance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but acknowledged that the new outlook assumes a sharp recovery in the second half of the year. (AP Photo/Collen Barry, file)

Ferrari slashes 2020 earnings forecast of COVID-19 pandemic

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

People gather inside Rome's Villa Pamphili park as it reopened after several weeks of closure, part of nationwide limited easing of some lockdown restrictions, on Monday, May 4, 2020. Italy began stirring again Monday after a two-month coronavirus shutdown, with 4.4 million Italians able to return to work and restrictions on movement eased in the first European country to lock down in a bid to stem COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy eases virus lockdown, and gets first reckoning of toll

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY AND FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, April 27, 2020, a man sits outside a house where 46 men, from Nigeria and Ghana live in Castel Volturno, near Naples, Monday, Southern Italy. The house has no running water, the dilapidated electrical system doesn't reach many rooms that are in the dark. They are known as “the invisibles,” the undocumented African migrants who, even before the coronavirus outbreak plunged Italy into crisis, barely scraped by as day laborers, prostitutes and seasonal farm hands. Locked down for two months in their overcrowded apartments, their hand-to-mouth existence has grown even more precarious with no work, no food and no hope. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Misery of Italy’s migrants grows not from virus but lockdown

By TRISHA THOMAS - Associated Press

Bianca Amodeo, 17, uses her tablet in her room at home in Ascoli Piceno, central Italy, Thursday, April 30, 2020 to chat with her boyfriend Francesco who lives in Ancarano, 15 minutes driving from home. Bianca and Francesco have not met for almost two months after Italy went in a general lockdown in a bid to fight the new coronavirus pandemic. While Italian Premier Conte announced the first relaxation of the circulation restrictions starting from May 4, Bianca and Francesco won't be able to meet yet because they live in different regions. ( AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Easing of lockdown begs the question: Who’s family in Italy?

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

AC Milan, Roc Nation partner for virtual fundraising concert

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FILE - In this Sunday, March 8, 2020 filer, a view of the empty stadium during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Genoa at the San Siro stadium, in Milan, Italy. While soccer leagues around Europe are still debating whether and when to resume playing, the leader of the continent’s Federation of Sports Medicine Associations is calling for a detailed series of tests to clear athletes for a return to training. Maurizio Casasco, who is also president of the Italian Federation of Sports Medicine, said that guidelines recently published by his domestic federation should be extended for all of Europe -- especially if UEFA intends to resume the Champions League and Europa League anytime soon. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Italian soccer’s chances of resuming looking bleak

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

US national player Weston McKennie, second from left, exercises with his Bundesliga team of soccer club FC Schalke 04 during a training session in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Despite a ban in Germany on all large gatherings through the end of August to fight the coronavirus pandemic, soccer officials are hoping to restart the league without spectators in May. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Across Europe, ideas differ over whether leagues can resume

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

This photo provided on April 28, 2020 by Blitz Agency shows Doctor Roberto Stella at the Varese Doctor's Association, in Varese, northern Italy, on Oct. 2, 2019. A doctor and teacher who trained a generation of family practitioners in Lombardy, Stella now occupies a place of tragic distinction in the pandemic in Italy: the first name on the list of more than 150 MDs who died in the COVID-19 crisis. (Alessandra Favarin/Blitz Agency via AP)

Lives Lost: Doctor taught a generation of Italian physicians

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte arrives in Milan, Italy, Monday, April 2020 for a meeting with local authorities. Italian factories, construction sites and wholesale supply businesses can resume activity as soon as they put safety measures into place aimed at containing contagion with COVID-19. This concession comes with partial easing of national lockdown restrictions announced Sunday night by Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Amid pandemic, Italy sees hope in Genoa bridge completion

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press