But the approaches of three nations — Finland, Norway and Denmark — in recent months stand out, a CNN analysis shows. In late November, Danish death rates exceeded one per million for the first time since May, Johns Hopkins data shows. Earlier in the week, officials expanded restrictions and announced a nationwide lockdown aimed at tamping down rising infections. The average daily testing volume nearly quadrupled from 2,900 samples in May to 11,300 in August, health ministry data shows. We then plotted the new death rates against each country's stringency score, which we found using Oxford University's Stringency Index.

Source: CNN December 20, 2020 04:52 UTC