Canada ranks 61st in the world in a set of rankings on how countries are handling the COVID-19 pandemic, a think tank survey shows.
The study was done by the Lowy Institute and ranked “average performance over time of countries in managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the 36 weeks following their hundredth confirmed case of the virus.”
In total, 98 countries were evaluated.
Canada ranked behind such countries as Belarus, Latvia, Namibia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar and even Kazakhstan.
The study gave top ranking to New Zealand, followed by Vietnam and Taiwan.
China was not included due to a lack of publicly available data on testing.
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On Friday the Government of Canada announced a new program prescribing mandatory supervised hotel quarantines for all travellers entering the country. It’s one of the strictest measures yet imposed in the fight against COVID-19, but it’s a measure with good precedent: New Zealand, one of the most enthusiastic adopters of mandatory hotel quarantines, has been ranked the best performing county in an index of almost 100 countries based on their containment of the coronavirus.
As we here in Canada undertake the grim task of reviewing our ICU triage protocols, New Zealanders are packing into stadiums without masks and celebrating New Year’s Eve in dense crowds just like the old days. COVID-19 has killed 18,000 Canadians and counting, while New Zealand is at 25 deaths. The Pacific Island nation had a breach this week, with a couple of positive cases of the South African COVID variant, all linked to the same quarantine facility in Auckland. While New Zealand has been lucky, it largely has itself to credit for its success.
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