Economics
Europe’s Top Virus Repellers Can’t Dodge Pandemic’s Economic Hit
- Slovakia with fewest per-capita deaths is among worst affected
- Poland is a rare bright spot, tipped to outperform rest of EU
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The European Union’s eastern wing outshone the west in containing Covid-19. The economic hit, however, is proving harder to dodge.
Early social-distancing measures and speedy lockdowns helped minimize loss of life as fatalities in the likes of Spain and the U.K. soared. Boasting the bloc’s fewest deaths per capita was Slovakia, which closed its schools, shops and borders earlier than all member-states bar Italy.