How did Portugal Manage the Covid Crisis So Well?

[Zeno]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/newseu....share_amp.html

Sounds similar to Greece, all in all. But we closed everything down earlier.

[Damião de Góis]

We are currently at 29912 cases, 1277 deaths and 6452 recovered. These numbers aren't that good to me, and they are only good if you compare them with our neighbours.
In any case, things here went better because we saw what was going on with Italy first and then with Spain so we knew what was coming, and also we are in a peripheral position bordering only one country so that was easier to control.

[Zeno]

We are currently at 29912 cases, 1277 deaths and 6452 recovered. These numbers aren't that good to me, and they are only good if you compare them with our neighbours.
In any case, things here went better because we saw what was going on with Italy first and then with Spain so we knew what was coming, and also we are in a peripheral position bordering only one country so that was easier to control.

Oh, 30k cases? Yikes, that's 10 times more than ours. And I think you're one million less in population than us.

[Damião de Góis]

Oh, 30k cases? Yikes, that's 10 times more than ours. And I think you're one million less in population than us.

Yes if you zoom on Europe our results aren't that impressive in terms of cases. I don't get this foreign media praise at all:



Even when talking about deaths:

[Luso]

The culture in Portugal is a lot of old people meeting family, hugging, kissing, probably similar to Greece... but yeah that didn't help at all.


Stuff like this happened:




So I wouldn't say they fought it that well.

[Tietar]

few cities, the virus is transmitted by large concentrations of people