With costs escalating because of the pandemic, care home operators say many may not survive without government help.

Italy, Spain and Florida are just some of the areas to ease up on lockdown rules this past weekend.

Italy had the bad luck of being the first Western nation to be slammed by the outbreak, and its total of 26,600 fatalities lags behind only the U.S. in the global death toll.

In a memo to several Cabinet ministers, Trump ordered a variety of measures to help Italy, including making U.S. military personnel in the country available for telemedicine services, helping set up field hospitals, and transporting supplies.

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more victims in Italy than any other country, and more than 45,000 worldwide.

Gloria Lisi, deputy mayor of Rimini, Italy, described the man's recovery from the novel coronavirus as "hope for the future."

Italians are under orders to stay indoors and avoid non-essential activities, including surfing, during the coronavirus pandemic.

Meanwhile, residents of Wuhan, the provincial capital where the coronavirus emerged in December, are allowed out of the city but cannot leave Hubei until April 8.

World sites from Rome's Trevi Fountain to Canada's Peggy's Cove are almost completely devoid of humans.

Provincial mayors are sounding an alarm that the virus-related toll fails to reflect a spike in deaths in the general population among those who have not been tested.