during the first marks an important day
for many countries around the world and
their efforts to try and ease lockdown
restrictions let's start in Europe for
you and in the Netherlands bars cinemas
and theaters are again open but with
only 30 people allowed inside at a time
and the country's renowned galleries and
museums are opening again to visitors
but things will be very different as our
correspondent and a halogen explains
well the first thing is the numbers so
they're allowing a fifth of the number
of visitors in every day which of course
means it will be a lot quieter if you
can get a space because they aren't
allowing people to just walk in off the
streets anymore you have to book your 15
minutes time slots in advance the good
news is there is no limits placed on the
amount of time you can stand in front of
the Masters so Rembrandt Vermeer and of
course Amsterdam is home to so many
cultural attractions the Anne Frank
House of Van Gogh Museum these
masterpieces were here before the
pandemic and they'll be around long
after it's gone and aha Logan there well
it's a similar story in other parts of
Europe bars can be open under certain
restrictions in Norway while Finland has
partially reopened its libraries and
restaurants and in Greece some hotels
have reopened as the country prepares to
ease travel restrictions in around 2
weeks time our correspondent Gavin Lee
has more
the phase 2 of what they call a D
escalada they de-escalation of three
phases starts today for 70% of the the
country basically that you can again be
inside cafes restaurants up to 40%
capacity you can go on the beach you can
go to swimming pools social distancing
applies you can even go to our wedding
up to 100 people outside 50 people
inside and not for Madrid not for
Barcelona there still seem to be areas
where they've taken quite a hits
Portugal - aside from Lisbon again
because it's had a flurry of coffee days
you can go to cafes bars restaurants and
well some pictures we've had this
morning from Italy one of the the
biggest attraction for Italy in fact 7
ha
million people a year go to the Coliseum
and they've opened the doors with
temperature checks you have to have
compulsory face masks as well to go in I
mean this is part of what brings 40
billion euros the economy in Italy
they're starting to get the lifeblood of
tourism attractions reopened again this
move segi to India now where all shops
including salons and hairdressers are
now allowed to reopen many train
services have also resumed but not
without their issues
a reporter Salman Ravi is in Delhi more
than 200 greens have started running
from today so that the stranded
passengers stranded people who are
unable to come out and go to their
places they could actually board the
trains and you can see there's a lot of
activity while the railway station is
more or less like an airport because all
the restrictions in the airport are
similar to what is being practiced here
social distancing only those passengers
who have got a confirm ticket they are
allowed to enter only well some African
nations have also eased certain
restrictions in Cameroon schools have
reopened and in South Africa
controversial alcohol ban has been
lifted after sales were forbidden for
two months the measure has been credited
for a big fall in domestic violence
during lockdown but responsible drinking
is now allowed once more from Monday to
Thursday alcohol can now be bought for
consumption at home and well take a look
at this long queues at the liquor stores
around the country just like this one in
Johannesburg the BBC's bomani McKeever
was there now at this Johannesburg
liquor store the doors opened at 9:00
a.m. sharp and we've seen a steady
stream of customers coming in now the
store has put in a number of safety
regulations in place to ensure that
customers are indeed save such as
temperature ticks sanitization as social
distancing markers as well as ensuring
that as a limited number of people
inside the store according to the
regulations people can purchase liquor
between nine and five o'clock from
Mondays to Thursdays but authorities
have warned people not to rush to bottle
stores but rather to stagger their
purchases
the week to avoid large crowds as well
as to reduce the risk of infection
really glad that we can't ride again we
support a lot of families it's not just
about servicing our customers it's also
the families that are that are within
our stores the government said the
banner alcohol sales was done to
alleviate pressure on the public health
system and importantly there has been a
reduction in alcohol-related injuries in
South Africa's hospitals so the
government will be monitoring the
situation very carefully but one thing
is for certain though they'll be a few
sore heads tomorrow morning firmani
they're in Joburg well these
restrictions are of course possible
because countries have passed the peak
of infections Italy was the first
country outside of China to imposes
strict national lockdown deaths have
dropped dramatically from early in the
peak in April allowing the government to
start to cautiously reopen some
businesses and key attractions like the
Coliseum the Spanish government's
decision to ease more restrictions is
based on similar results authorities
they recorded no new Corona deaths for
the first time since March that's down
from 950 deaths reported at the peak of
the outbreak in early April but not all
governments are waiting until cases
subside before reopening as economic and
political pressures continue to build
leaders are easing lockdowns even as
cases continue to rise this is happening
in Russia for instance Dada mayor Putin
the president there claims a pandemic
has passed its peak but cases and deaths
are still rising rapidly with
authorities confirming more than 9,000
new cases on Monday alone cases are
still rising in Moscow which has seen
one of the worst outbreaks in Russia but
on Monday people were allowed out to
exercise for the first time in nine
weeks Sara Rainsford MIT
went to meet them families like the yes
tariffs are free to wander again as long
as they're in face masks they're still
not entirely free though the mayor's
office has assigned each block of flats
in the city just three walk days a week
to limit the crowds all of this opening
up is happening even as Moscow is
detecting more than 2,000 new
coronavirus cases every single day but
President Putin has already rescheduled
his Victory Day parade for later this
month
Kremlin's keen to hold a constitutional
reform vote that would allow mr. Putin
to stay on empower the politicians here
really want to move on there's a lot of
relief here at finally being released
out onto the streets again but there's
also merciless mockery of the
complicated new rules so for example you
can only go for a run until 9:00 a.m.
and whilst you can now hire one of these
city bikes as long as you wear gloves
you definitely can't sit on a bench and
all of the children's play areas they're
still sealed off Moscow's mayor's
calling all of this an experiment it is
the cautious reawakening of a city to
see how the corona virus responds so
arrange for their well Latin America is
now the epicenter of the global pandemic
and the situation the region's worst hit
country of Brazil is getting worse has
confirmed more than half a million cases
and as you can see the number of new
deaths is rising exponentially with
almost a thousand deaths recorded on
Sunday that brings a total to more than
29,000 Katie Watson is in San Paolo last
week the state governor talked about
sapelo returning to some kind of
normality but it is very very much the
start and how it works is this is that
the state is divided into regions and
each region is given a color or a face
so it goes from red which is the the
strictest phase where the toughest
problems are so there's much more strict
regulations on what people can do going
up to blue weather it's much more
flexibility but the idea being is that
the severe state of severe regions can
go through those phases eventually and
come out the other end now here in Sao
Paulo where an orange that means that
places like shopping malls car
dealerships they can start to look at
reopening