Cafes and churches open in Italy and Greece; Spain eyes summer reboot

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Italian shops, restaurants and churches reopened their doors to spring sunshine, Greece welcomed visitors back to the Acropolis and Spain hoped for tourists to return in summer in cautious steps to ease coronavirus lockdowns, Reuters reports.

Countries around the world, at different stages in the pandemic, are wrangling with decisions on when to ease restrictions, weighing the threat to life against the threat to economic survival. Summer tourism is a major earner for Italy, Greece and Spain.

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