COPENHAGEN - Jeweller Pandora has reopened around 70 of the 100 shops in China that were closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, but the other 30 remain shut, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.

The company has also closed some shops in Italy, CEO Alexander Lacik told Reuters in an interview, but "fewer than 10" out of its 148 in the country.

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