What you need to know about the coronavirus right now

May 4 (Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the
coronavirus right now:

Italy's lockdown exit: It's a family affair
Italy is among the countries easing social distancing
restrictions on Monday, including reopening factories,
construction sites, hairdressers and libraries. Others include
Spain, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Malaysia and Lebanon.
But in Italy, the hardest hit country in Europe with the
longest lockdown, confusion reigns.
Guidelines issued by the government over the weekend noted
that visits to distant relatives will be allowed, including the
children of cousins, or the cousins of spouses, as well as
visits to anyone with whom one has "a stable bond of affection".
But they did not say whether friendship counted as a stable
bond of affection, until an off-the-record message to media
outlets from the prime minister's office explained that visits
to friends are still not permitted. warning from India
Agra, famed for the 17th-century marble-domed Taj Mahal, was
lauded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government as a
template for India's battle against COVID-19.
After confirming its first cases in early March, the city of
1.6 million people set up containment zones based on detailed
household-level plans developed for polio control by the World
Health Organization (WHO). It also screened hundreds of
thousands of residents and conducted widespread contact tracing.
By early April, the northern city thought it had the virus
beat. But it turns out a resurgence was already in the works,
fuelled by attendees to a gathering of the Islamic missionary
group Tablighi Jamaat in New Delhi in late March: Agra now has
around 600 coronavirus cases and 14 deaths. travel bubble?
New Zealand and Australia are discussing the potential
creation of a "travel bubble" between the two countries.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will take part in
a meeting of Australia's emergency coronavirus cabinet on
Tuesday, the Australian government said, stoking speculation
that two-way travel over the Tasman Sea could be permitted.
with a vengeance...
In South Korea, shoppers and travellers crowded malls and
beaches on the first long weekend since the country began easing
coronavirus curbs last month.
With early-summer weather helping retail therapy return with
a vengeance, the term "bobok sobi" - revenge shopping - has
trended on the nation's social media. There is no malice
intended. The phrase describes the bounce-back in spending as
people rush to make purchases delayed by social-distancing
rules. #ditchyourstuff minimalism
In marked contrast to the euphoric spending seen in South
Korea, for a growing number of Chinese hit by job losses,
furloughs and salary cuts, the consumer economy has begun to
spin in reverse. They are no longer buying - they are selling.
Instead of emerging from the coronavirus epidemic and
returning to the shopping habits that helped drive the world's
second-largest economy, many young people are offloading
possessions and embracing a new-found ethic for hard times: less
is more. goat and the pawpaw
Tanzania has pulled from circulation coronavirus test kits
that have returned positive results on samples taken from ... a
goat and a pawpaw.
The discovery came after local security forces were asked to
check the quality of the kits. They randomly obtained several
non-human samples, including from a pawpaw, a goat and a sheep.
The kits themselves were imported from abroad - where
exactly has yet to be disclosed.