Social distancing measures again as infections keep rising in latin americas hardest hit country. Based spin the worst hit country in europe with the highest coronavirus death toll outside china but after 8 weeks of lockdown italy is beginning to ease restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic the bustle is returning to the streets of its towns and cities is a capital rome the government says measures will be east further if the infection rate continues to drop almost 30000. 00 people have died in italy lets speak to francesco john best tony who is in milan on skype francescos so what exactly is restarting today and how do italians feel about restrictions being eased. This is the phase 2 of the emergency beginning today in italy more than 4000000 people went back to work this morning as the country tries to restart the economy without pushing the curve of the infractions again factories Building Sites and wholesale trade reopened today there was also a lifting of the restrictions