Israel started “cautiously” emerging from a second coronavirus lockdown Sunday after a month of tight restrictions, re-opening preschools, kindergartens, beaches and national parks, with numbers of new infections falling, AFP reports.

Public radio said about a million young children would return to kindergartens and other facilities Sunday.

Talia Zinkin, 40, said she “hesitated a lot” before sending her two-year-old son to daycare.

“But I felt he would enjoy being with other children,” she told AFP. “We have to try to live normally.” Zinkin, playing with her younger child in a Jerusalem park, said it had been full of children last week — but had emptied with the reopening of kindergartens.

Businesses not involving face-to-face contact with the public were allowed back to work, and a contentious ban on individuals moving more than one kilometre from their homes was lifted.