It has not escaped the attention of many economists that, in Europe, the hardest blows of the coronavirus pandemic are falling upon already debt-riddled Mediterranean countries.

Soaring infection and mortality rates in Italy, Spain, and France have led to the first stringent lockdowns on the continent in the wake of a virus where days, even hours, might save lives but will clock up painful economic consequences.

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