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Albania went into heavy lockdown during March and maintained it until late April when restrictions were gradually eased and pretty much fully removed by June 1st, which, as the data shows, was too much relaxation too early and I don't think they have reintroduced them either. I'd call that a fail.

Austria also went into lockdown (with curfew) from March until early June but then opened most of the borders and ran a massive tourism campaign for the neighbouring countries. They did reintroduce mandatory masks from early July and still have some restrictions in place which is probably why the second wave hasn't been too severe.

Bulgaria had a solid early response but removed most restrictions in June and have been paying for it ever since.

Denmark did much better than the neighbouring countries in the early stages but they too have been removing restrictions since July and only reintroduced some in mid August.

Greece also responded well initially but had zero restrictions by late July, including International travel. They are busy blaming the citizens for not following guidelines while the numbers escalate out of control. Another FAIL.

Hungary exercised the emergency powers to lockdown the country early in April but then the parliament voted to remove those emergency powers in early June which didn't seem to hurt them so it's hard to see where the recent spike came from.

Portugal went into lockdown early but started easing restrictions as early as April 30th and had completely removed them by late June abut has subsequently reintroduced some of them.

Pretty much the same story for Romania except they haven't reintroduced any of the countermeasures.

Serbia had an early lockdown and then relaxed it in early June after a change of Government but reintroduced most of the lockdown measures in late July.