We've been asked to stay at home as much as possible. Those who can should work from home and most non essential shops has been closing down due to lack of customers. Hair dressers, spas, opticians, dentists and any other profession where you can't keep at least 1 meter apart has been ordered shut for now. Schools and kindergarden is closed for all kids except those of parents with a job that is needed. Mail service is still up and running and we've got 400% more home deliveries (parcel to the door) than normal. Hospitals are still not too overwhelmed and in my town we've only got 1 death and 17 in hospitals. Country wide we have 3608 confirmed cases of infection, 302 in hospital and of those 91 in intesive care (youngest is 14) and 17 deaths.
Our worst problem is all those that are now out of a job. In the last 2 weeks we've had 291 000 out of work due to businesses closing down and they're suddenly stuck without money or work. Hopefully there will be some sort of finacial support on the way soon. Students have been informed they will have online classes for the rest of the term and they will get an additional loan (when what they need is a scholarship to pay for rent and food as they no longer have a part time job). So health wise we're managing, financial and business wise we're quite fu**ed.
BUT and this is a big but, we seem to be one of the countries who acctually manage to contain the contagion to a minimum.
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