The country implemented harsh lockdown measures to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus that would have overwhelmed medical resources.
Greenland is the first and only country in the world affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic to now have no active cases after the only 11 people to contract the virus recovered.
The National Medical Office in Greenland reported that 11 people tested positive out 844 tests conducted in the country of approximately 57,000 people. There are still 51 tests awaiting a result as of Thursday.. Nuuk is the most populous city in the country with over 18,000 residents. The report stated that the capital city is closed off and those who wish to travel in or out require special permission. Greenland closed all of its borders in order to keep the novel coronavirus contained. The country took drastic measures in the hopes of preventing history from repeating itself within its borders.
"A grim history of deadly epidemics brought to Greenland in the 18th and 19th century by European colonizers has fueled fears that the coronavirus, if not checked, will fast reach the many small outlying villages, thereby creating urgent and impossible demands for emergency air transport and intensive care in Greenland's small hospitals," according to the report.
Apollo Mathiassen, a fisherman in the fishing village of Saattut--which is home to 250 people and located in the northwestern part of Greenland--told the"On Friday it will be two weeks that we have been careful and still nobody here shows any signs of illness. If nobody is infected, I think it will be sensible to allow a more relaxed way of being together here in Saattut, but I don't know what the plan is. Perhaps they will relax the rules after Easter," Mathiassen said.
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