In your opinion, which country is most successful in control over COVID-19 spread so far? Please share the reasons in favor of your choice.
Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan
Hong Kong: 454 confirmed cases, 4 deaths
Singapore: 631 confirmed cases, 2 deaths
Japan: 1,291 confirmed cases, 45 deaths
Sotiris Folinas , all are from Asia? What about Europe, Africa & The Americas?
Dear all, Algeria today : total cases = 6067, Deaths = 515, Recovered = 2998. My Regards
South Korea has been successful in fighting the coronavirus.
South Korea is a great country, economic power, modern technology thanks to which they have succeeded in fighting the epidemic.
Hi;
South Korea was the first country to be massively affected outside of China. However, South Korea managed to contain the spread of the coronavirus without even having to confine its population. Massive tests and rigorous citizenship of the population have allowed this country to successfully fight against the Covid 19.
With my best regards
South Korea with most testing and contact tracing, which helped in controlling the spread of the disease.
China has also been very successful in controlling the disease in Wuhan with most strict lock down. Covid 19 being a new disease, China had a challenge, first to diagnose it, isolate the virus, identify and sequence the virus, then develop a diagnostic kit. In my opinion considering the unknowns about the disease, China did a remarkable job in controlling it.
Cota Rica. Deaths per million = 2, despite numbers both north and south of the border beinig massively higher.
Which one is the principal determinant: Tests/million? Infected/million? Recovered/million? Deaths/million?
Dear all, I think percent of deaths is more significant in reflecting the impact of this pandemic. My Regards
Vietnam is the most populous country of the world without any COVID-19 deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/viet-nam/
Hong Kong, Singapore , Vietnam South Korea , Cuba and Taiwan are among few countries those deal with corona virus in much better way than developed countries
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Currently, there is not enough data to answer this question in a fully objective way. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic that causes Covid-19 disease is still ongoing in many countries and is in various stages of development or decline. To conduct this type of full comparative analysis, it is necessary to provide full data on both the scale of pandemic development in individual countries, the anti-pandemic and sanitary security instruments used, the anti-crisis socio-economic policy used, the transition of some plants and enterprises operating in various sectors of the economy to the production of medical devices necessary for fighting a pandemic, the degree of compliance with anti-pandemic safety rules (e.g. when wearing protective masks, staying in home quarantine, etc.) and verified results of all these activities, i.e. the scale of slowing down the development of a pandemic due to the measures taken, the scale of deaths caused by Covid-19 disease, the scale of the increase in the number of people cured of Covid-19, the costs incurred, the effects of halting the deepening economic crisis, and many other factors. In addition, the mortality rate of people diagnosed with Coronavirus and other co-morbidities is different in individual countries. The scale of using specific medical therapies varies, e.g. based on blood plasma from a person who has recovered from Covid-19 disease. Plasma containing Coronavirus antibodies is given to people who are seriously ill with Covid-19. In individual countries, located in different climate zones, communities living in different economic and living conditions, there may also be a significant diversity of natural social and collective immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. It is known that most people infected with Coronavirus do not have Covid-19 or have very mild illness, just like a common cold. But the scale of the percentage of infected people who may not even know that they have or have had SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus may also vary significantly from country to country. Therefore, objective comparative analysis on an international scale is very difficult.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
I think that China has the best percentage of recovered cases which about more than 95%.
I agree vietnam is the best country to control covid infection. Other countries still struggle to face this virus. Lots of factors that influence the difficulties to manage and control this situation such as immune system, environment, law enforcement, society features, political also..
I think Turkey is among the successful countries in the fight against the novel virus considering the population size, average number of test conducted per day and the rates of recovery to the death ratio.
Dear all, thanks for your responses. Have you observed the ongoing Virtual 73rd World Health Assembly; The US & China are assailing each other and only these two are not yet being included in the COVID response resolution proposal. The WHO DG told it as GLOBAL AMNESIA. Where is unity? What do you expect? Should COVID ignite the light of convergence or diversity?
From more developed, to my knowledge, Taiwan (but Chinese can be very angry by mentioning that because of political reasons).
Also - several Central and Eastern European Countries and the Baltic States among them.
Thank you, Md Rabiul Alam !
To answer this question, it is recommendable to start from each country’s specificities: population size, local capabilities (hospitals, doctors, nurses, financial resources, testing capacity, quality of government etc.), lockdown measures and their effects. In my opinion, China, Singapore and the Republic of Korea are among the success stories.
Your question is one part of the binomial pandemic-economic situation. In order to assess a government’s efficiency, it is important to take into account not only how it controlled the SARS-CoV-2 spread, but also how it managed to temper the negative effects on the: population, life quality, purchasing power, employment. Each country has specific issues, for instance, in China and India the number of migrant workers is very high, have these countries managed to solve the migrant workers’ problems associated with the pandemic?
General statistics on Covid-19 (total confirmed cases, total deaths) should be complemented by additional issues: reaction speed, the speed of slowing down the number of cases, offering the population the necessary compensations for their losses, efficiency of the economic recovery measures.
According to The Business Insider, among the Middle East nations, Iran has the lowest number of Corona Virus cases per capita.
Iulia Monica Oehler-Sincai ,
As you observe, each country has its own special problem areas in trying to control the spread of COVID-19. Replies to this discussion thread repeatedly answer that the most successful nations are countries like China, Korea, and I mention Iran, and a common denominator is that the spread is controlled the most in nations with traditionally non-democratically constituted governments led by one supreme head of state. Thus, citizens in these countries are accustomed to comply immediately with any government orders, in this case, social distancing, staying at home, wearing protective face masks, because, unlike democratic societies, freedom of choice is not so important as conformity to the rule of law, traditionally in places such as China and Iran, for example.
Please also take a look at this useful link.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-00882-9
