Economics
Denmark Attempts Return From Virus Lockdown After Early Response
A worker disinfects the handles of an escalator at a metro station in Copenhagen on March 31.
Photographer: Olafur Steinar Gestsson/Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
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One of the first countries in Europe to shutter its economy in response to Covid-19 may soon be ready to start the slow road back to normal life.
“We’ve managed to avoid the misfortune that has befallen a number of other countries,” Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a press conference in Copenhagen on Monday. “The only reason for that” is that “we acted early.”