A queue of people wait outside Sainsbury's supermarket in front of a Coronavirus information display as National Health Service staff and social care workers who show their NHS ID are allowed into a branch of Sainsbury's supermarket 30 minutes before other customers who are made to wait outside the store, at the start of stores trading day in Kingston Upon Thames, south west London, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
There was a glimmer of hope on Monday in figures from Italy, the European ground zero of Covid-19.