As Coronavirus Surges in U.S., Some Countries Have Just About Halted It
Some European nations are closing in on a milestone that to the U.S. seems distant: virtually stopping the new coronavirus from spreading within their territories.
Echoing the achievement of Asia-Pacific countries such as New Zealand, Vietnam and Taiwan, a handful of places in Europe are reporting only a smattering of new daily infections. Their success in containing the pandemic has allowed them to reopen their economies earlier, at a faster clip and with greater confidence than the stop-start efforts of U.S. states and hard-hit neighbors such as the U.K.
Their experiences offer lessons at what public-health and disease experts say is a critical juncture in the pandemic, when the virus is still testing many countries even as their economies reopen, and the path to finally defeating it is uncertain.
Estonia has detected only 12 infections in the past two weeks; Iceland, 40. Norway has reported 187; Ireland 148. The latter two are comparable in population to South Carolina, which over the same period reported almost 17,000 new cases of coronavirus infection.
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