This is because, on the one hand, the speed of governments’ responses in flattening the pandemic curve differed among countries and, on the other hand, because of different initial conditions and timing of the appropriate monetary-fiscal policy mix. In Europe, Southern countries have been hit harder than Northern ones, both in terms of the brunt of the disease and the economic recession.
In my country, measures to combat the pandemic were taken by the Government in a timely fashion and the citizens exhibited selfdiscipline and respected the public addresses of the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis; the total number of reported cases was equally low. Greece is among the five best performers in the EU in terms of coronavirus deaths per million.