If you are wondering when and how the UK coronavirus lockdown could end, look to our European neighbours.
At the beginning of this week, building sites across Spain reopened two weeks after downing tools.
But the general population of the country which has been one of the worst hit by the coronavirus have been kept indoors for a fifth week running.
Meanwhile in Italy, officials have today begun to ease some of the lockdown measures in an effort to reboot its faltering economy.
Bookshops, office supply stores and clothing stores for children are among the stores which have reopened.
The stores are required to be sanitised twice a day and social distancing and protective gloved and masks are demanded of customers.
The wider containment measures will still be in place until at least May 3, Italian government announced last week.
NBC News reports that some Italian store owners and workers are anxious that the partial lifting of the restrictions has come too soon and risks sparking a second wave of the virus.
In Spain, heavy industry and construction workers returned to work on Monday but the government is strongly encouraging office workers to keep working from home.
Shops, bars and public spaces are to stay closed until at least April 26 in Spain.
But the future of holidays in the country is still under discussion, according to Spanish tourism minister Reyes Maroto.
But the minister did not rule out restrictions staying in place once international tourism restarts.
Speaking to Spanish newspaper El Pais, she said: "We have to guarantee, when international tourism opens, that the person who comes to Spain is a safe person...
"The issue of borders will be accompanied by the evolution of the health crisis.
"Therefore, I do not have the solution of when [they will be able to open].
"On how you will be able to enjoy our beaches, we are defining different scenarios.
"It is very important that the sanitary recommendations are maintained, we are going to have to internalise what we are already doing now, hand washing, social distancing ... even on the beaches.
"Those patterns will be in our day to day for a time, you cannot take a step back."
The coronavirus pandemic has infected almost 2 million people worldwide and more than 119,000 deaths have been recorded.
The brunt of the disease has been felt most heavily in New York, Italy, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Officials around the world are worried that halting quarantine and social distancing measures could easily undo hard-earned progress but there are signs countries are looking in that direction.
Austria has today allowed a partial return to work but the UK, France and India extended coronavirus lockdowns.
And the World Health Organisation warns the outbreak has not yet peaked.
The epicentre has moved from China, where the virus first emerged in December, to the United States, which now has the highest death toll at 23,568.
World leaders, in considering easing curbs, have to balance risks to health and the economy, as the lockdowns strangle supply lines, especially in China, and bring economic activity to a virtual halt.
The world economy is expected to shrink by 3% this year, the International Monetary Fund said, marking the steepest downturn since the Great Depression.
The World Health Organisation said the number of new cases was easing in some parts of Europe, including Italy and Spain, but outbreaks were growing in the UK and Turkey.
"The overall world outbreak, 90 percent of cases are coming from Europe and the United States of America. So we are certainly not seeing the peak yet," World Healht Organisation spokesperson Margaret Harris told a briefing in Geneva.
But world stocks gained after Chinese trade data came in better than expected and as some countries partly lifted restrictions.
Spain was flattening the curve on the graph, representing the rate of growth of the outbreak, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Tuesday.
The overnight death toll from the coronavirus rose to 567 on Tuesday from 517 a day earlier, but the country reported its lowest increase in new cases since March 18. Total deaths climbed to 18,056.
While some workers expressed concern that the relaxation of restrictions could trigger a new surge, for Roberto Aguayo, a 50-year-old Barcelona construction worker, the restart came just in time.
"We really needed it, just when we were going to run out of food we returned to work," he told Reuters.
Denmark,one of the first European countries to shut down, will reopen day care centres and schools for children in first to fifth grade on April 15.
Thousands of shops across Austria reopened on Tuesday, but the government said it was "not out of the woods".
Austria acted early to close schools, bars, theatres, restaurants, non-essential shops and other gathering places about four weeks ago. It has told the public to stay home.
Austria has reported 384 deaths in total, fewer than some larger European countries have been suffering each day. Hospitalisations have stabilised.
