For a look at how hard it is to press “play” on a Western economy still battling the new coronavirus, turn to Europe, which is freeing its shops and small businesses in stages, easing a continentwide lockdown that has kept nearly half a billion people at home.
Wall Street Journal: Europe slowly emerges from lockdown
An aerial view shows the deserted hippodrome of Deauville, Normandy, western France on April 19, 2020, on the 34th day of a strict lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus.
