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KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 — Malaysia has slid down from its previous best-ever ranking at the 10th spot in January, and has now hit the 67th spot in February amid the wave of new cases driven by the Omicron variant, the latest Nikkei Covid-19 Recovery Index showed. In the global index ranking of 121...
There is a striking gap between official Covid-19 deaths and excess mortality data across many countries. This column evaluates the quartile ranking of countries during the pandemic using official and excess mortality data. By the end of 2021, the quartile rankings of three fifths of the countries differ when ranked by excess versus official mortality. Countries that are
2021 was the second year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, marked by rapid recovery from the dramatic 2020 resulting from the initial outbreak in Q1 2020. Q2 of 2020 proved to be the worst quarter for global trade on record, but the situation started to improve relatively fast. Global trade is already at levels seen ...
While the COVID-19 pandemic has hit different countries with varying intensity, responding to the crisis has presented an unprecedented challenge to most governments. In this context, evaluations provide critical tools to support real time sharing of lessons on what is working, what is not, what could work and for whom. This paper draws lessons from evaluations that governments have carried out themselves of their COVID-19 responses. It provides a synthesis of the evidence from 67 such evaluations produced in OECD countries during the first 15 months of the pandemic. These first evaluations sh...
Researchers evaluate the efficiency of COVID-19 elimination strategies implemented in Hong Kong.