Custard tarts and classes: Portuguese enjoy some normality again


  • World
  • Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Staff wearing protective masks and face shields serve customers from behind screens at custard tart shop Pasteis de Belem, as restaurants, museums and coffee shops reopen at reduced capacity, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lisbon, Portugal May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante

LISBON (Reuters) - Masked waiters served a trickle of customers sitting safely apart at newly-opened cafes while some pupils returned to school at staggered times during Portugal's start of a second phase of exit from coronavirus lockdown.

Still, an abundance of rules to prevent a new wave of infection - such as capacity limits for restaurants - showed life was still far from normal.

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