Reuters offers insight into how world is watching Italy as businesses plead to return to work

As businesses and academics plead to return to work across Italy – the first Western country to impose a lockdown – Reuters offered insight into the country’s dilemma of how to extricate itself from the unprecedented measures. The same debate is being held around the globe: how long and stringently can bans to combat the coronavirus pandemic be held in place before irreversible damage is wrought, with businesses sunk and swathes of the population jobless?