A woman wearing a mask lights a candle at the St. Louis of the French church in Rome, Wednesday, March 4, 2020 as the church, which has three of the painter’s most celebrate works, reopened to the public after a temporary closure. A priest at the church had tested positive for the virus after he had driven to Paris. The church was due to open Wednesday after health experts decided visitors ran no risk of infection. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
March 4, 2020
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In Italy and beyond, virus outbreak reshapes work and play
ROME (AP) — Italy closed all schools and universities and barred fans from all sporting events for the next few weeks, as governments trying to curb the spread of the coronavirus around the world resorted to increasingly sweeping measures that transformed the way people work, shop, pray and amuse themselves.