Nordics top the class with their virus responses

While Sweden’s economy got off relatively lightly in H1 thanks to the light-touch lockdown, Norway and Finland saw even smaller falls in activity at a lower human cost. Nonetheless, the success of the Nordics does not offer any obvious lessons for those countries now facing a resurgence in cases: it owes less to different actions but more to the speed and quality of the implementation.

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