A tough strategy of isolation has protected Greenland from coronavirus — so far
Greenland's geography seems to have helped it contain COVID-19. But the country still faces serious challenges from the pandemic.
Imagine the audacity it takes to close off the largest island on Earth from the rest of the world. An impossibility, a baffling paradox, you would think, but then with coronavirus, it seemed the only way to prevent disaster. Greenland’s Chief Medical Officer Henrik L. Hansen was right in the thick of it, providing the crucial pieces of advice on a strategy of almost total isolation to the government in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital.
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