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(3DCFTAs) The global pandemic charges on. In the two and a half months, from the end of September to mid-December, the world total number of infections more than doubled to 72 million, with deaths rising to 1.6 million. However in all of Europe, over the same period, the current second wave of infections has been even worse, with the number of infections rising 4.7 times in Western Europe, 4 times in Eastern Europe, and over 6 times in the Balkans. Mercifully the increase in deaths has been more limited in Western Europe, increasing 1.7 times. But in Eastern Europe and the Balkans the increase in deaths has been more severe – 3.4 times in Eastern Europe and 4.5 times in the Balkans. At the level of individual countries the extent of pandemic has become more uniform, with outliers coming closer to the average scores. Thus both Georgia in Eastern Europe and Croatia in the Balkans, both of whom largely escaped the first wave in the first half of 2020, have seen explosive growth of infections and deaths since September. The policy responses tend now to be tightening restrictions and at least partial lockdowns again, which is causing serious tensions in the population, given the severe economic and social hardships already suffered. […]

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Co-authors: Michael Emerson, Veronika Movchan, Artem Remizov, Denis Cenusa, Tamara Kovziridze, Shahla Ismayil, Benyamin Poghosyan, Andrei Yahorau, and Andrey Makarychev.

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