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Coronavirus: Think tank ranks Cyprus fifth among countries for handling Covid (updated)

Cyprus ranks fifth in a Covid Performance Index of almost 100 countries for its successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic published by think tank Lowy Institute on Thursday.

New Zealand, Vietnam and Taiwan rank the top three in the index with Britain and America are near the bottom of the pile.

Cyprus is in fifth place after Thailand, and Rwanda is ranked sixth. Other countries in the top ten are Iceland, Australia, Latvia and Sri Lanka – countries with fewer reported cases and deaths both in aggregate and per capita terms.

The Lowy Institute said its index excludes China, where the first cases were identified in December 2019, due to a lack of publicly available data.

In total, 98 countries were evaluated in the 36 weeks that followed their hundredth confirmed case of Covid-19, using data available to January 9, 2021.

Fourteen-day rolling averages of new daily figures were calculated for confirmed cases, confirmed cases per million people, confirmed deaths, confirmed deaths per million people, confirmed cases as a proportion of tests, and tests per thousand people, the Lowy Institute said.

The report comes as world coronavirus cases surpass 100 million with the death toll exceeding 2 million.

In Cyprus 193 people have died from Covid, while by Wednesday a total of 30,380 cases had been recorded.

The United States, with over 25 million confirmed cases, ranked 94, while India, with more than 11 million cases, was 86th. Britain, with the highest number of the deaths in Europe, stood at 66th. Brazil and Mexico were at the bottom of the list.

The index showed countries in Asia-Pacific proved the most successful in containing the pandemic, while Europe and the United States were “quickly overwhelmed” by the rapid spread of Covid-19.

“Levels of economic development or differences in political systems between countries had less of an impact on outcomes than often assumed or publicised,” the Sydney-based Lowy Institute said in its analysis.

“In general, countries with smaller populations, cohesive societies, and capable institutions have a comparative advantage in dealing with a global crisis such as a pandemic.”

Vietnam, which has used targeted testing and a centralised quarantine programme to successfully contain the coronavirus reported its first locally-transmitted case of Covid-19 for 55 days on Thursday.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/01/28/coronavirus-think-tank-ranks-cyprus-fifth-among-countries-for-handling-covid-updated/

For the full report click https://interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/covid-performance/

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Dave
Moira And Dave

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Great to hear that Cyprus has done so well, although I am sure that still won't be enough to satisfy the conspiracy theorists on the island who keep claiming that we are all being imprisoned by the government for no obvious reason.

It is much easier to shut down a very small Island with 2 airports and no passenger ferries than it is to shut down a country composing of 65 million people, god knows how many airports, sea ports and illegal immigrants landing in dinghies on a daily basis. Yes, we should have shut down all ports and airports, had the Navy prevent all illegal immigrants boats half way across the channel, returning UK citizens only allowed in but quarantined. Total lock down for all but essential workers, only allow people out to get food and medicines with Police permits. Fine massively anyone not following those rules.
That would have all been doable if we had the manpower to enable it all to happen. We don't, even bringing in the forces en masse we wouldn't have had enough. On top of that we have this wonderful so called multi national culture comprising of those who will not obey rules, those who will scream prejudice over every rule that interferes with their religious practices and multi generational living and our own home bred feral families breeding more feral brats who all do their own thing while spending their benefits. The country never stood a chance and this will still be going on 6 months from now if not longer.

RANT OVER !

Stay safe.x