twelve countries that come out of the running of the bulls in Europe- ELESPECTADOR.COM

A part of Europe timidly emerged from confinement on Monday. “Finally get out!” After weeks of strict confinement, several European countries began their activity on Monday, albeit partially and under close surveillance.

Spain

Starting this Monday, some small businesses such as hairdressers can receive clients by appointment. Bars and restaurants can sell to go. The use of a mask is mandatory on public transport.

In the Madrid metro, Pilar López, has taken a mask that they have given her. “This looks very black because we do not know what will come next, frankly I am 83 years old and yes, I am afraid, I cannot see the family,” he says, on the way to the bank.
In La Sagrera, a working-class neighborhood of Barcelona, ​​the activity gradually returns to its course.

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In a small haberdashery, Rosario Montalvo, 59, attends a lifelong customer who had called her to buy beige yarn. “Some clients have called me because they wanted to order things from me and I have decided to open, so I also take the opportunity to clean and prepare the premises,” she says, although it is not clear how the week will continue.
“It depends on how these days are going and I’ll see if I keep opening or not. This pre-appointment for shops like mine is a joke. People will book time at the hairdresser but they won’t ask me for an appointment to buy ribbons, threads or buttons “, the Mint.

In some Balearic and Canary Islands, most shops, museums and terraces of bars and restaurants can open with limited capacity, like hotels but with conditions. The rest of the country will follow them from May 11.

Germany

Schools gradually reopen from this Monday in some federal states. Hairdressers up the blind, and they also reopened places of worship and museums.

“I’ve been waiting since 8 in the morning. I’m sick of my hair,” said Galep Atmaca, a 15-year-old Berliner with thick blonde hair.

“We have many appointments for today and for the whole week,” said Ramazan Uzun, a 27-year-old hairdresser from Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, confirming the enthusiasm of many citizens for cutting their hair.

Austria

Travel restrictions have been removed and meetings of up to 10 people were authorized with respect for social distance. The mask is mandatory in transport and shops.

Secondary schools reopened Monday for seniors. Lea Karner, wearing a cloth face mask, reunited with her friends under the sunny Vienna sky. “I am really happy because I can see my friends again, and because I focus much better at school than at home,” she said.

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Belgium

Companies that do not receive the public can resume their activity.

“I am happy to be able to leave home […] He was very tired, he was tired of confinement, “said Jean-Baptiste Bernard, a 27-year-old architect, on the way to some works, at the Schuman metro station in the heart of the European quarter in Brussels.

The mask is mandatory in transport. The bus must be climbed in the back and the first row cannot be used to protect the health of the driver. On the tram, some seats were marked with red crosses so that people would not use it.

Portugal

Bookstores and car dealerships may reopen. Local trade, up to 200 m2, that faces the street, can also do so, with a mandatory mask. As for the hairdressers and beauty salons, they can resume their activity but by appointment. In public transport the mask is mandatory.

Hungary

Outside of Budapest, cafe and restaurant terraces, beaches and public baths reopen and professional sports training resumes.

The mask is mandatory in transport and shops.

Poland

Hotels, shopping malls and part of cultural centers reopened like libraries and some museums.
In Warsaw, many Poles –wearing mask– They rushed towards the commercial galleries.

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Nordic countries

In Iceland, universities, museums and hairdressers reopen.

Denmark and Norway, under “semi-confinement”, were among the first European countries to ease the restrictions.

Italy

The manufacturing, construction and wholesale sectors can open factories and shops and revive works, for which 4.5 million Italians were called to return to work. “I had no problems on my train, in my car we were only five or six people,” Isabella Ferrari, 61, a housewife from Milan, told AFP.

The use of a mask, the price of which was limited to 0.50 euros per unit, is mandatory in transport. “I do not like this mask at all, I breathe badly, but if it is the price you have to pay to get back to work … Finally go! That’s what counts,” said Massimo Moi, a 53-year-old Roman optician.

The distancing rules are still in force, also in the parks, which were reopened. Italians can also visit their relatives, as long as they wear a mask. Bars and restaurants may sell takeout only. Its full opening will take place on June 1, as well as beauty salons and hairdressers.

Schools will be closed until September.

Balkans

In Croatia, services that involve close contact with the customer, such as hairdressers, may reopen. In Serbia, they reopen cafes and restaurants keeping their distance, while in transport is mandatory to wear a mask. High curfew is maintained.

Nebojsa Marovic, a 42-year-old musician, was sunbathing on the terrace of his favorite cafe in downtown Belgrade, for the first time in over a month. “I would never have imagined that something so small would give me so much pleasure. This epidemic has made me realize that it is precisely these little things, that we usually take for granted, that give value to life.”

In Slovenia, cafe and restaurant terraces, museums, bookstores, hairdressers reopened and professional sports training resumed. Face masks are mandatory in closed public places, transport and shops.

In Bulgaria, after the reopening of parks, country walks were authorized.

Greece

Bookstores, hairdressers and beauty salons, electronics and sporting goods and gardening stores were able to reopen.

“I really wanted to be able to go out again, resume my social life, and have my beard trimmed to stop looking like a bear!” Joked Alexis Protopappas in front of a barber shop in the Athenian neighborhood of Pagrati.

Cyprus

The streets of Nicosia regained a certain normality on Monday, for the first time in a month and a half, with much more traffic and even some traffic jams. The shops began to reopen, and in some of them lines formed.