Over the past few weeks, governments across Europe have been slowly easing coronavirus lockdown restrictions—some moving in phases, others more quickly. Nonessential businesses, churches, museums, and more public places are being allowed to host visitors once again, with new rules in place to enforce smaller crowd sizes and proper social distancing. Collected below are images from across Europe over the past two weeks, as different countries emerge from months of pandemic lockdown.
Cautious Reopenings Across Europe
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A woman and a child buy a treat from a "Mr. Whippy" ice-cream van as sea mist blows across the beach in Southport, England, on June 15, 2020. The British government has relaxed coronavirus lockdown laws significantly, allowing zoos, safari parks, and nonessential shops to open to visitors. Places of worship will allow individual prayers, and protective face masks will become mandatory on across London's transportation system. #
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Jo Whiteman works behind a screen as she fits a young girl with a pair of shoes on the first day of business since the coronavirus lockdown at W.J. French and Son, a shoe-fitting shop in Southampton, on the south coast of England, on June 15, 2020. #
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Bridget Nolan watches "Grease" on the big screen from the roof of her mother's car in the Titanic Quarter beneath the famous Harland and Wolff cranes in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 13, 2020. The drive-in cinema is the first of its kind in the UK, as some of the restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic were relaxed. #
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Kids wait in line over social distancing circles before the play "Elle pas princesse, Lui pas Héros" at the Theatre 14 in Paris as French theaters start to reopen with safety measures, on June 2, 2020. #
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A pedestrian wearing a full-face covering as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 walks across Oxford Street in central London on June 11, 2020, as nonessential shops prepare for reopening. #
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A woman sits with her dog as she looks at the sunset in the town of Oia in the island of Santorini on June 14, 2020, as the country prepared for the return of tourists to Greece from around 30 countries. #
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Visitors wear protective face masks as they ride on a roller coaster on the second day of the reopening of Energylandia, an amusement park in Zator, Poland, on June 7, 2020. #
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A French boxer wearing a protective face mask attends a complete physical evaluation and check-up prior to taking part in the first training session at the Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance center for athletes in Paris, on June 5, 2020. #
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The iconic Neuschwanstein Castle is pictured near the village of Hohenschwangau in southern Germany during its reopening on June 2, 2020. The castle reopened after two and a half months of closure due to the COVID-19 crisis. #
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Don Raimondo Satta celebrates Holy Mass outdoors while the faithful wear protective masks as imposed by the Italian government on May 31, 2020 in Porto Cervo, Sardegna, Italy. #
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Supporters of Levski Sofia, surrounded by cardboard cutouts, wait for the start of the national championship's football match between Levski Sofia and Ludogorets Razgrad in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 5, 2020. Bulgarian clubs were allowed to fill the stadiums with seating set to less than 30 percent of capacity. #
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A "social-distancing ambassador" is seen on Oxford Street as nonessential stores reopen for the first time since the nationwide lockdown came into effect, on June 15, 2020, in London, England. #
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Members of the Cascais & Oeiras Chamber Orchestra wear protective masks during a rehearsal under conductor Nikolay Lalov in the Auditório da Senhora da Boa Nova, the day before their first performance in months in front of a live audience, on June 5, 2020, in Cascais, Portugal. #
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The vice mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacis, attends the reopening of Riu Plaza España Hotel after it had been closed for three months due to the coronavirus outbreak, on June 15, 2020, in Madrid, Spain. #
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A couple raise beer glasses at the Grand Place square, after weeks of lockdown restrictions following the coronavirus outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium, on June 8, 2020. #
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