Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has outlined a further loosening of movement restrictions, including opening borders to travellers from Europe from next month to unwind one of the world’s most rigid coronavirus lockdowns.

With shops as well as bars and restaurants due to reopen from Monday, the government has also announced that people will no longer have to justify travel within their own region and will be able to meet friends as well as family.

“People will be able to go wherever they want — to a shop, to the mountains, to a lake or the seaside,” he said.

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