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New Zealand, Vietnam and Taiwan top a ranking of 98 countries and territories that have best managed the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an index published this Thursday in Australia, which puts Chile in 89th place and to Colombia, Mexico and Brazil in the last three positions.
The ranking, which compares the response of governments to the pandemic in the 36 weeks following their 100th confirmed case of the virus, also places Australia in eighth place, a United Kingdom in 66 already United States in 94, although excludes China due to lack of data, according to the Australian portal Lowy Institute, who prepared the study.
New Zealand, which this week detected its first three Covid infections since November 18, has acted forcefully since the start of the pandemic, which has allowed it to maintain the accumulated cases at about 2,300, including 25 deaths.
For its part, Vietnam accumulates 1,551 cases, including 35 deaths and Taiwan It has registered 890 infections and seven deaths.
The report states that “no country turned out to be the unanimous winner in the period under review”, by limiting that the severity of the pandemic has varied since the crisis erupted, as well as the existence of structural factors such as population size or levels of economic development or differences in political systems, which appear to influence the management of the pandemic.
The report is published after more than 100 million cases of Covid-19 were registered in the world, with the United States, India and Brazil, as the countries with the most infections, according to independent data from Johns Hopkins University.
The Latin American nations with the most infections are: Colombia (more than 2 million), Argentina (about 1.9 million) and Mexico (about 1.8 million), which occupy the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth positions, worldwide.
