As Italy eases its restrictions, residents reflect on the ways life has changed in Europe's longest lockdown

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• Italy began easing its coronavirus restrictions on May 4.
• Before that, the country had been carrying out one of the world's strictest lockdowns, and the country is still urging people to follow social distancing.
• Business Insider talked to a handful of people throughout Italy about how they had been navigating the lockdown and what they were doing with some of their new freedom.
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People living across Italy, from the northern hills to the shores of the south, have faced some of the strictest forms of lockdown following an explosion of coronavirus cases in early March.

Both children and the elderly were forbidden from leaving homes in many regions, with all nonessential travel prohibited for well over 45 days.

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