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In this photo taken on Sunday May 3, 2020, a group of cyclists, many on racing bikes, ride down the Paseo de la Castellana boulevard in Madrid, Spain after Spaniards were able to go outdoors to do exercise for the second time in seven weeks since the lockdown began to battle the coronavirus outbreak. High-performance athletes were allowed to resume training this week but some reported being harassed by local residents who thought they were breaking confinement rules. (AP Photo/Paul White) ** FILE **

Athletes harassed in Spain while practicing amid confinement

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

Djokovic appears to break confinement rules in Spain

Associated Press

In this photo taken on Saturday, April 25, 2020, a woman rides a Madrid's electric bike hire service BiciMAD as the lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus continues in downtown Madrid, Spain. As countries across the world seek to get their economies back on track after coronavirus lockdowns are over, some people are encouraging the use of bicycles as a way to avoid unsafe crowding on trains and buses. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Cycle power: Bikes emerge as a post-lockdown commuter option

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

The now open Urban Outfitters in downtown Athens, Ga, on Friday, May 1, 2020. Following Gov. Brian Kemp's decision to end the states shelter-at-home order people are out and about despite COVID-19 cases continuing to grow in the state. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)

Sun draws many out in US, Europe; Russia virus numbers grow

By DAVID PORTER and JEFFREY COLLINS and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

People exercise on a seafront promenade in this photo taken with a telephoto lens in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, May 2, 2020. Spaniards have filled the streets of the country to do exercise for the first time after seven weeks of confinement in their homes to fight the coronavirus pandemic. People ran, walked, or rode bicycles under a brilliant sunny sky in Barcelona on Saturday, where many flocked to the maritime promenade to get as close as possible to the still off-limits beach. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Spaniards race out for 1st open-air exercise since mid-March

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Workers Unions keep a safe distance from each other and wear face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus during an event marking May Day in Lisbon, Friday, May 1, 2020. With the traditional protest marches cancelled this year, workers unions delegates representing all workers that had to stay at home took part in the event with the approval of the Portuguese health and interior ministries. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

The week that was: Lockdowns ease, and choices are complex

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 19, 2019 photo, Michael Robinson, soccer player and broadcaster, speaks during press conference in Madrid, Spain. Michael Robinson, who won the European Cup with Liverpool and became a respected and widely popular soccer broadcaster in Spain, has died. He was 61. Robinson's death was announced Tuesday by his family on his official Twitter account. The cause of death was not given, but 16 months ago he revealed he had been diagnosed with a malignant cancer. (Europa Press via AP)

Michael Robinson, soccer player and broadcaster, dies at 61

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

A family go for a walk taking their hands along a street of the old city, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Sunday, April 27, 2020. On Sunday, children under 14 years old will be allowed to take walks with a parent for up to one hour and within one kilometer from home, ending six weeks of compete seclusion. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

“Green light! Ants!” Spain’s kids get freedom from lockdown

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

A woman who identified herself as a registered nurse in a local emergency room counterprotests in front of a demonstration to open up the state from the restrictions in place due to the new coronavirus, organized by the 3% United Patriots group, outside the Governor's Mansion, Saturday, April 25, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)

Spain lets children play as US states move at various speeds

By AMY FORLITI and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

In this photo taken from video released by Spanish National Police, showing police escorting suspected Egyptian extremists detained in a Monday overnight raid, in Almeria, Spain, Tuesday April 21, 2020. A suspected Egyptian-born Islamic State fighter described by police investigators as a &quot;dangerous extremist&quot; and two other people who are being investigated for possible links to religious extremist groups have been arrested in southern Spain, the country's National Police announced Tuesday. (Spanish National Police via AP)

Spain probes how ex-rapper IS fighter slipped into Europe

By ARITZ PARRA - 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

Spain arrests ex-rapper as Islamic State fighter in Syria

By ARITZ PARRA and SERGE CARTWRIGHT - Associated Press

World cruise, begun before pandemic, nears end of odyssey

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

In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, a healthcare worker prepares protective gear at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Clinica CEMTRO during the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid, Spain. The clinic still attends to patients who require emergency treatment for orthopedic traumas, but the staff is mostly dedicated to the COVID-19 patients who are sent by the public hospitals that have been hugely overwhelmed in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spanish sports clinic becomes center for virus patients

By BERNAT ARMANGUE and TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2020, photo, head mortician Jordi Fernandez prepares a coffin before placing the body of a COVID-19 victim in an underground parking garage turned into a morgue at the Collserola funeral home in Barcelona, Spain. Since a state of emergency was declared in the country, funeral homes must follow strict measures to avoid further contagion, stripping Fernandez of his normal duties and taking away the last chance families had of seeing their loved ones before laying them to rest. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Coffins in the parking lot: A Spanish funeral home copes

By Renata Brito and Felipe Dana - Associated Press

List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

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

Commuters wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus at Atocha train station in Madrid, Spain, Monday, April 13, 2020. Confronting both a public health emergency and long-term economic injury, Spain is cautiously re-starting some business activity to emerge from the nationwide near-total freeze that helped slow the country's grim coronavirus outbreak. 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/Bernat Armangue)

Spain begins to ease some lockdown restrictions as infection pace slows

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Monica Carfora, right, deputy head of the emergency of the Santo Spirito Hospital, which now has a separate emergency for possible covid patients, holds a chocolate Easter egg as she poses for a photograph with nurse Silvia Sforza, holding out their arms to indicating social distancing, outside the entrance to for covid emergency, in central Rome, Sunday, April, 12, 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/Alessandra Tarantino)

Coronavirus hits Italy, Spain, France harder than U.S.

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times