London | “There is little left we can do.” Estonia’s Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, herself laid out with COVID-19, had barely a word of consolation for her country’s 1.3 million people as the pandemic’s third wave breaks.
Tight restrictions are in force in Estonia, yet the COVID-19 infection rate has risen 7 per cent in a week – and 10 per cent in the over-55s. As coronavirus infections hit a record high in the Baltic country, Ms Kallas braced her people for the possibility of an entire summer in lockdown.
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