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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

Olive oil is put on a pizza ready to be home delivered, at the Caputo pizzeria in Naples, Italy, Monday, April 27, 2020. Region Campania allowed cafes and pizzerias to reopen for delivery Monday, after a long precautionary closure due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Naples’ beloved pizza is back after virus shutdown eases

By Paola Santalucia - Associated Press

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 government sets May 18 return for soccer training

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 file photo, a worker wearing a mask and protective clothing walks between the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures at the Brescia hospital in northern Italy. As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe’s hardest-hit country. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

As virus lockdown eases, Italy ponders what went wrong

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 16, 2020 file photo, medical staff tend to a patient in the emergency COVID-19 ward at the San Carlo Hospital in Milan, Italy. As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe’s hardest-hit country. By contrast, Lombardy’s front-line doctors and nurses are being hailed as heroes for risking their lives to treat the sick under extraordinary levels of stress, exhaustion, isolation and fear. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)

Many failures combined to unleash death on Italy’s Lombardy

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Birthday surprise brings joy to Italian exchange student

By THEO DEROSA and The Dispatch - Associated Press

In this April 16, 2020, a few cars and trucks drive on the usually very crowded main highway around Frankfurt, Germany, that is seen in the background. As the restrictions to avoid the spreading of the coronavirus are eased, Chancellor Angela Merkel has pointed to South Korea as an example of how Germany will have to improve measures to “get ahead” of the pandemic with more testing and tracking of cases so that the rate of infections can be slowed. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Preparation, quick action aid Germany, SKorea virus fight

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Friday, April 10, 2020 nurse Cristina Settembrese leaves her apartment to take her dog Pepe for a walk before going to hospital for her work shift in Basiglio, Italy. Settembrese spends her days caring for COVID-19 patients in a hospital ward, and when she goes home, her personal isolation begins by her own choice. The 54-year-old has been a nurse since she was 18. Two months ago, the infectious disease ward where she works at San Paolo Hospital in Milan started treating only coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

AP PHOTOS: Italian nurse and mom can’t drop guard at home

By ANTONIO CALANNI and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 19, 2019 file photo, director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt speaks during the unveiling ceremony of the &quot;Vase of Flowers&quot; painting by Jan van Huysum, at the Pitti Palace, part of the Uffizi Galleries, in Florence, Italy. On Monday, April 20, 2020, Italy was completing its sixth week of nationwide lockdown with at least two more weeks to go, as part of government efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. Schmidt expects a boom in visitors after pandemic restrictions end, judging by the experience after previous emergencies closed down one of the world’s most popular museums. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)

Uffizi, accustomed to taming crowds, looks to outbreak’s end

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 12, 1999 file photo shows restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, owner of Le Cirque 2000, standing inside the celebrated French restaurant in New York. Maccioni, who opened the celebrated French restaurant Le Cirque in New York and watched it grow into arguably Manhattan’s favorite dining room of the rich and famous, has died in Italy. He was 88. Maccioni's son, Mauro, told The Associated Press that his father died in the family's villa in Tuscany early Monday, April 20, 2020. He had suffered from the effects of a stroke and Alzheimer’s disease, the son said. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File)

Sirio Maccioni, who opened famed eatery Le Cirque, dies

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to participate in a group photo at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. An odd new front in the U.S.-Russian rivalry has emerged as a Russian military cargo plane bearing a load of urgently needed medical supplies landed in New York’s JFK airport. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

CROSSTALK: Russia delivers coronavirus equipment to U.S.

By Julia Gorin

FILE - In this March 16, 2020, file photo, Tomas Aragon, health officer for the city and county of San Francisco, speaks during a press conference headed by public health directors spanning six Bay Area counties in San Jose, Calif. On the morning of March 15, as Italy became the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, a half dozen high-ranking California health officials held an emergency conference call to discuss a united effort to contain the spread of the virus in the San Francisco Bay Area. That call and the bold decisions that came in the hours afterward have helped California avoid the kind of devastation from the virus in parts of Europe and New York City. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group, File)

Fast decisions in Bay Area helped slow virus spread

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

World cruise, begun before pandemic, nears end of odyssey

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and ANGELA CHARLTON and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

An ambulance passes a road block on a road leading to the San Raffaele health care and hospice structure after, according to reports, over 70 people inside tested positive to the new coronavirus, in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Dimension of virus ‘massacre’ in Italy nursing homes grows

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS - Associated Press

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Illustration on world supply chains in global trade by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

COVID-19 exposes terrible dangers of globalization

By Peter Morici

In this April 4, 2020 file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Italian virus hospital offers Fauci work if Trump fires him

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Passengers wearing face mask waits for the train at the main train station in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Face mask distribution in train and bus stations continue as factory and construction workers resume their activities in roughly half of Spanish regions emerging from the Easter holiday period. Spain's left-wing Cabinet is expected to pass new measures to aide smaller business and the self-employed affected by the freezing of economic activity. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

European cities begin to ease restrictions, open businesses despite warnings of virus resurgence

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Doctors take notes after performing a new coronavirus fast test in Lima, Peru, Monday, April 13, 2020. Peruvians can call a telephone number to report that they have COVID-19 symptoms and the state organized medical brigades will visit and do rapid tests to confirm or rule out new COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

States map out reopening of economies, say crisis not over

By ERIC TUCKER and LORI HINNANT and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

A worker wearing a protective face mask to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus sprays disinfectant as a vehicle prepares to enter to an office building carpark in Beijing, Monday, April 13, 2020. China on Monday reported over 100 new cases of coronavirus infection, dozens of them imported. Of the new domestic cases, several were recorded in the province of Heilongjiang bordering Russia and southern business hub of Guangzhou. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Virus cases about 2M worldwide; few new hot spots

By ERIC TUCKER and ARITZ PARRA and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press