연휴 맞은 미 해변•공원에 인파…코로나 사망 10만명 육박 무색<br /><br />With a gradual ease of national lockdowns around the world, people are resuming their outdoor activities...but many are breaking COVID-19 social distancing measures.<br />Due to the problem it was facing, a city in Italy has decided to impose travel restrictions during the night.<br />Kim Dami reports.<br />Italians flocked to city spots over the weekend following the gradual ease of the country's COVID-19 lockdown.<br />"It's been 75 days since I've been out the front door and actually this situation makes me feel a little weird but I really needed it."<br />But with many out and about as if it was back to the pre-COVID era, Italy is once again tightening up its loosened quarantine measures.<br />Over the weekend, the northern city of Brescia imposed travel restrictions during the night.<br />The country reopened businesses including restaurants last week... only to see people not wearing face masks and disregarding social distancing.<br />Worrisome scenes were also spotted over the Memorial Day weekend in the U.S.<br />"It's everybody's own personal responsibility to follow social distancing rules. And we've made it very, very clear that our beaches are active use only."<br />Despite the warning, hundreds of thousands of Americans sunbathed on beaches, including some 2-hundred youngsters throwing a party on a street.<br />In fact, the city of Tampa in Florida had to shut down a beach parking lot because of overflowing crowds.<br />The U.S. has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 in the world, with death toll expected to exceed 100-thousand over the holiday weekend.<br />In South America, the new epicenter of the pandemic, the number of newly-confirmed cases a day is now 30 to 40-thousand.<br />According to international statistics site, World-Ometer, as of Saturday, around 30 countries in the region have confirmed around 710-thousand cases.<br />The death toll in South America has reached almost 40-thousand.<br />Kim Dami, Arirang News.<br />
