Size does not matter in the fight against Corona ... Small European countries outperform the major

Spanish newspaper Larathon said that the small European countries knew how to manage the health crisis caused by the outbreak of the Corona virus early, and in a better way than the big countries that were unable to cope with the spread of the epidemic, with the exception of Germany.

According to the newspaper, the European countries that started to see the end of the tunnel in the Corona crisis are those that acted more quickly, and decided to close the borders and stop social and economic activities after the first news about the epidemic started coming from Italy.

The newspaper pointed out that the common denominator between those countries is that they are all small, with a population of no more than ten million people, and the death rate is low compared to the large European countries, and their health authorities conducted a record number of diagnostic tests for the disease.

Thus, Austria recorded less than six hundred deaths in two months, which is the number recorded by Britain in one day, or Italy or Spain in the middle of the epidemiological curve.

Since the first case of the virus was discovered in February, Austrian authorities have contacted doctors and scientists in the provinces of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna (northern Italy) to find out the field situation there, and thus obtain information to be able to adopt a national strategy to combat the epidemic.

Norway and Denmark were also at the forefront of the global campaign to combat Corona, and the trust of citizens in their respective governments played a very important role, which allowed the rapid application of emergency measures in times of crisis, such as that of most of the countries of the world.

Citizen confidence
According to the newspaper, the confidence of citizens in the government varies between small and large countries: 63% in Denmark, 50% in Austria, 68% in Luxembourg, 59% in the Netherlands, and in Italy it is in the range of 25%, while it stabilizes At 21% in Spain and Britain.

Commenting on the trust factor in Northern European governments, communication expert Anders Deedal says, "It is one of the main reasons. There is a lot of confidence in governments, the authorities and the media, which makes it easy to manage some situations. It is this confidence that makes Danes more committed to directives."

The people of those countries seem satisfied with the measures taken to deal with the biggest crisis facing their countries since the end of World War II, because their governments are keen on their popularity among voters.

Thus, the figures indicate that the popularity of the Austrian People's Party reaches 44% in opinion polls, and the popularity of the ruling party in Denmark under the leadership of Prime Minister Mitt Friedrichsen rose to 34%, which is the best result in twenty years.

Corona's crisis, in contrast, was a blow to the populists in the far-right trend who lost popular support in Austria (10%), Denmark (7%), and Germany (10%).