Beaches and football as Europe relaxes virus restrictions COVID19
Beaches in France and Italy were open Saturday for the first weekend since the easing of coronavirus lockdowns while football fans awaited the return of major league action with Germany's Bundesliga set to kick off.
The hunt for a vaccine for a disease that the World Health Organization says may never disappear has also threatened to become a source of tension between the globe's haves and have-nots, with trials underway in various countries. In northeast Europe, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were creating their own "Baltic bubble" allowing free movement among the three countries.
Parasols and sunloungers are starting to appear on coastlines in Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic. Ireland will begin to lift its lockdown in coming days while introducing a 14-day quarantine period for new arrivals.
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