Rome/London — Countries from Italy to New Zealand have announced the easing of coronavirus lockdowns, but Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who went back at work on Monday after being hospitalised with Covid-19, said it was too early to relax restrictions there.

Nearly 3-million people have been infected by the coronavirus across the world and more than 207,000 have died. But many countries are looking to ease lockdowns as rates of infection fall and fears of economic ruin rise...

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