In Germany, restaurants, bars, theatres, cinemas, gyms and other leisure facilities closed in a four-week "wave-breaker" shutdown.

The focus should be where the 'risks are the greatest,' one expert said. 'The risks are greatest indoors.'

After curbing the epidemic by imposing a rigid lockdown between March and May, Italy has seen a steady increase in new cases in the last two months.

Lawyers are filing 100 new cases Monday with Bergamo prosecutors investigating the outbreak, on top of 50 complaints lodged last month.

The comments came after Professor Alberto Zangrillo, head of intensive care at Italy's San Raffaele Hospital in Lombardy told state television that the new coronavirus "clinically no longer exists."

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

Shops are due to open on May 18 and the government decided that all movement within individual regions should be allowed that same day, meaning people will be able to visit friends.

He and his entire skiing group caught the virus while on a trip in Italy.

Only the United States has suffered more deaths than Britain, according to the data so far.

The jellyfish was spotted about a month after dolphins were seen on the Italian coastline amid sweeping lockdown measures to slow the coronavirus outbreak.