Denmark’s starting to ease coronavirus lockdown measures - after becoming one of the first European countries to bring in restrictions.
Nurseries are reopening and schools will start welcoming some pupils back from today.
The Prime Minister Mette (pron: met-tay) Frederiksen says the government’s planning to get society back to normal more quickly than previously thought, as the number of people in hospital continues to fall.
Meanwhile, in Italy, the government announced Friday that the current lockdown measures would remain in place until May 3, but some services - including bookshops and children’s clothes shops - will be allowed to reopen.
Michael McKinney, who is from Bundoran in Donegal and lives in Trieste in Italy, has been in lockdown for six weeks and says he's happy to see an easing of the restrictions:
"You couldn't leave your house for any reason - in Ireland you were able to leave your house for one hour's exercise, that wasn't allowed here.
"One member of the household could leave to go do the shopping, but that was it.
"If you were more than 200 metres from your house even walking your dogs, you were stopped and had to present papers and ID.
"It's great to hear of anything opening up again, they're allowing personal exercise again so even just being able to go for a walk is fantastic, and the likes of bookshops arena going to open up again."
