We’re #61! We’re #61! We’re #61..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..The Lowy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan international policy think tank located in Sydney, Australia..“Fewer reported cases and deaths, both in aggregate and per capita terms, point towards a better response to the virus. More tests conducted on a per capita basis reveal a more accurate picture of the extent of the pandemic at the national level. Lower rates of positive tests, meanwhile, indicate greater degrees of control over the transmission of COVID-19,” said the institute..“Data was extracted from the Our World in Data series, which is maintained by researchers at the University of Oxford and the non-for-profit Global Change Data Lab.”.Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
