An employee places a sign with instructions about social distancing as she prepares to reopen a shop in the district of Prenzlauer Berg after a partial end of the lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease in Berlin, Germany. April 18, 2020.
But there were encouraging signs over the weekend in Europe with daily death tolls dropping in Italy, Spain, France and Britain. Spain registered 410 new fatalities on Sunday, the lowest daily count in almost a month, and a figure that health ministry emergencies coordinator Fernando Simon said "gives us hope".
"I feel a little guilty being here, at the same time for my own mental sanity this is probably what I need," said real estate agent Taylor Henderson at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.