In contrast, many other economies -- both developed and developing -- may have defied expectation and done well, occupying elite positions in the league table. Not surprisingly, New Zealand led by the dynamic and extremely popular Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tops the Bloomberg league table with the highest achieved score of 85.4. In many a country, there is hardly any provision of care homes, care is usually carried out in their own homes. Again, there is marked discrepancy in the definition of death rate, one being the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases. If the death rate is calculated from testing people when ill enough to be admitted to hospital, the death rate would be unusually high and different from the rate arrived at by calculating test positive patients who are asymptomatic as well as patients not ill-enough to require hospital admission.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 08, 2020 17:15 UTC