New research has uncovered the safest countries and regions for COVID-19, with Australia making the top 10.
The new 250-page report by Deep Knowledge Group analyses and ranks the economic, societal and health stability of 200 regions, countries and territories globally in regard to the coronavirus by way of a special analytical case study.
The analysis utilises 130 quantitative and qualitative parameters, grouped into 30 indicators and six top-level categories: quarantine efficiency, government efficiency of risk management, monitoring and detection, health readiness, regional resilience, and emergency preparedness.
According to the report, there was a significant degree of variance in terms of the regional safety ranking of the 200 regions and countries analysed.
It also identified a large number of territories (many of them technological and economic superpowers) that scored substantially lower than expected “by any basic logic”.
“Despite their overall level of healthcare sophistication and government management efficiency, suffering some of the highest infection spread and mortality rates (e.g. the USA, UK and France), which is a surprising result that requires further analysis and assessment of the specific causes of these anomalies,” the study noted.
“This finding strongly suggests that one of the most critical factors impacting regional safety is not just the general level of different territories’ theoretical capacity to withstand and neutralise national emergency situations, but rather the specific policies and crisis management strategies and tactics they employ in practice.”
Switzerland claimed top spot in the COVID-19 safety rankings, followed by Germany, Israel, Singapore, and Japan.New research has uncovered the safest countries and regions for COVID-19, with Australia making the top 10.
Austria and China claimed sixth and seventh respectively, while Australia ranked eighth, New Zealand came ninth, and South Korea rounded out the top 10.
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The report also contains a four-tiered ranking system for each country and region.
Tier 1 consists of 20 regions with “exceptionally high” levels of regional safety, Tier 2 consists of 20 regions that scored “comparatively well” in terms of regional safety, Tier 3 consists of 60 regions that scored “much less favourably” during the first-phase analysis, and Tier 4 consists of 100 regions that scored “least favourably” during the first-phase analysis, “and which suffer from high levels of data unavailability or unreliability”.
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