The Telegraph: "What the UK can learn from smaller countries on how to avoid total lockdown"

The success of Georgia in the fight against the COVID-19 has been once again praised by the international media; The Telegraph has published an article about how this small country like many other smaller European nations has managed to have a death rate in the single digits, as the death toll continues to soar in larger European countries.

The Telegraph wrote that Georgia ranked 42nd in the league of preparedness last year in the Global Health Security Index, which measures a country’s ability to cope with disease. 

Yet as Covid-19 last week crossed the world landmark of infecting one million people - Georgia stands out among the European crowd as a country that has coped unexpectedly well with the global pandemic", wrote the Telegraph.

The Telegraph wrote that the situation is similar in Latvia, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine, while the death toll continues to soar in comparatively richer western European countries such as the UK, France, Spain and Italy. Why?

The article says that "it seems their more recent experience of emergencies has stood them in better stead than their more pampered neighbours".

The Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Gakharia told the Daily Telegraph it wasn’t just down to its “early and decisive executive action" but because: “Georgians have experienced and overcome adversity throughout history".

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