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NPR: In Europe, cautious steps away from coronavirus and toward normalcy

By NPR.

Published April 15, 2020 at 4:57 am

A priest wearing a medical mask, amid concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, walks on April 13, 2020, at the entrance in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases at an Orthodox monastery in central Kyiv has jumped to more than 90, including 63 cases confirmed in the past 24 hours, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said on April 13.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

As the spread of the coronavirus appears to be slowing in certain parts of Europe, some nations are cautiously beginning to ease restrictions on business and movement. Denmark was one of the first countries in Europe to announce that it would shut schools, borders and businesses, and fewer than 300 people have died from the virus.