In this week's episode of The Debrief, host John Beauchamp speaks to TFN writer Matt Day about how countries in Central and Eastern Europe have managed to curtail the coronavirus pandemic despite all the odds.

Poland, along with other Central European countries, appears to have done a better job at containing the virus than their affluent Western neighbours.

You can read the full story here, and you can also check out the story Matt mentions in the show about the lockdown in Wrocław during the 1960s smallpox outbreak by clicking here.