Schools in Italy likely to re-open in September amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Italy will start reopening its manufacturing industry on May 4 as part of plans to ease its coronavirus lockdown, and schools will reopen in September, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. Taking the decision to reopen businesses is a very bold step for Italy as it was one the worst- hit amid the coronavirus crisis.

“We are working in these hours to allow the reopening of a good part of businesses from manufacturing to construction for May 4,” Conte



told Italian daily La Repubblica.

He said the measures would be presented by the beginning of next week at the latest.

Conte said schools would reopen in September but added studies showed the risk of contagion was very high. Teaching remotely was working well, he said.

Currently, Italy has more than 100,000 active covid-19 cases in their country, but the recovery rate has accelerated in the past few weeks, giving the citizens some hope.