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Top flight German football kicked off again on Saturday, as the French returned to the beach, and Italy announced a resumption of European tourism, providing much-needed relief, against the relentless drumbeat of death and economic devastation, wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic. The reopening marked the beginning of a tentative return to normality in some of the country worst affected by the global outbreak, which has killed 310,000 people according to official tolls, infecting over 4.5 million. As governments sought to restart economic activity, while treading cautiously amid the lingering -- though in many cases waning -- pandemic, Germany's Bundesliga became the first major European football league to resume. On Saturday all eyes were on the Bundesliga's opening games, which were played to vacant, echoing stadiums. The Bundesliga's return to action behind closed doors, on a day in which Borussia Dortmund hammered local rivals, Schalke in Signal Iduna Park//AFP