German Chancellor Angela Merkel on October 14, in Berlin. | Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images

Four reasons Germany has fared better than its neighbors so far in Covid-19 cases and deaths.

Germany gets a lot of favorable Covid-19 press these days — and for good reason. Its daily new cases per million people have been persistently lower than any of its Western European neighbors, and its death rate, from the beginning of the outbreak, has been among the lowest in Western Europe: currently 0.15 deaths per million people, compared to France’s 1.15 and Spain’s 2.75.

Even as coronavirus cases surge across the continent — the week prior to October 11 saw the largest weekly increase in cases since the beginning of the pandemic — Germany’s latest wave is still small relative to other countries in the region.

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