Italy is slowly reopening after months of lockdown.
New daily coronavirus cases and deaths dropped on Friday in Italy, just before more businesses are slated to reopen and Catholic churches are permitted to hold mass again Monday.
Italy was the first European country to lock down, and for much of the pandemic, was the hardest-hit country in the world. Italy has reported nearly 32,000 confirmed deaths since the pandemic hit, the most coronavirus deaths in the world after the U.
