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New York Times,  Feb. 23, 2023  12:12pm
Taiwan's death rate still ranks world No.1
nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
world rank country cases per 100,000 14 days changed deaths per 100,000
1 Taiwan 67 -34% 0.25
6 Australia 10 -16 0.11
7 Japan 14 -54 0.10
23 NZ 24 -7 0.06
31 Hong Kong - - 0.04
35 S. Korea 20 -26 0.03
64 Malaysia <1 -14 <0.01
about 170 Singapore 0 -100 -
about 200 China - -100 -
world No. 66 Thailand,  No. 67 UAE,  No. 68 Indonesia,  71 Pakistan,  72 India,  80  Bangladesh,  127 Cambodia,  133 Laos,   147 Macao

Taiwanese government said at 2023-2-6 that the pandemic of third wave started from middle Dec. 2022, the number of deaths and the curve is relatively smooth; however, Taiwan's deaths per 100,000 ranked No.1 among main Asia countries since Oct. 2022, and then jumped to world No.1 at Feb. 2023.   Taiwanese government said (2023-2-17) the pandemic is ending, but the death rate at 2023-2-23 is still world No.1, cases per 100,000 ranks world No.2  (next to Nauru), according to New York Times.

　

　

 According to New York Times (2023-2-6), Taiwan's CovID-19 death rate (deaths per 100,000) ranks world's No.1, Taiwan's cases per 100,000 ranks world's No.1.

　

New York Times,  Feb. 6, 2023
nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
world rank country Asia's rank deaths per 100,000 Fully Vaccinated
1 Taiwan 1 0.26 87%
2 Finland 　 0.26 79
3 Sweden 　 0.23 74
4 Bermuda 　 0.22 75
5 Latvia 　 0.21 68
6 Japan 2 0.21 82
12 Australia 3 0.12 85
29 S. Korea 4 0.05 86
35 China 5 0.03 91
49 Macau 6 0.02 100
62 Philippines 7 0.01 68
71 NZ 8 <0.01 84

　

New York Times,  Feb. 6, 2023
nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
world rank country cases per 100,000 14 days changed deaths daily average deaths per 100,000
1 Taiwan 111 +39% 63 0.26
4 Japan 32 -55 262.6 0.21
5 S.Korea 29 -43 27.7 0.05
7 NZ 23 - 0.3 <0.01
11 Australia 12 -23 30.4 0.12
19 Singapore 8 +26 0.1 <0.01
　 China 1 -79 468.3 0.03
　 world 3 -34% 2187 0.03

According to New York Times (2023-2-6), Taiwan's CovID-19 death rate (deaths per 100,000)  ranks world No.1.   Taiwan's cases per 100,000 ranks world No.1.   In accord with NY Times (2023-2-14), only 17 countries'  "fully vaccinated" rate is higher than  Taiwan's 87%.   So it might not be vaccination issue.  Taiwan had bad record of "failure to administer CovID remedy/medicine in time".  Bloomberg, 2021-7-25: Taiwan's medical care system is also run on a tight budget to keep costs affordable.  United Daily of Taiwan (2023-2-14):  clinical doctors fear one of the reasons of increasing number of CovID deaths is quite a lot of patients have not taken oral antiviral pills such as Paxlovid.   udn.com/news/story/120940/6969305?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub120940_pulldownmenu_v2   United Daily (2023-2-13): "Medicine should be prescribed but not prescribed, medicine should be taken but not taken".  

　

New York Times,  2023-2-16,  News briefing
CovID death per 100,000 people since 2020
comparison among Asia's countries
Australia Taiwan S. Korea Indonesia Japan New Zealand Singapore China (official count)
74 70 65 59 55 50 30 6
China's official toll includes only infected people who died in hospitals

　

nNew York Times (2022-12-25), Taiwan's CovID-19 death rate ranks Asia's No.3

Asia's rank country deaths per 100,000
1 HK 0.56
2 Japan 0.23
3 Taiwan 0.13
　 　 　
　 China <0.01
　 USA 0.13
　 world 0.03

　

Global comparison: where are confirmed CovID-19 deaths increasing most rapidly?

How long does it take the number of total  confirmed deaths to double

Taiwan ranks world No. 4
Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths   2022-12-26

　
location how long does it take for the number total confirmed deaths to double total confirmed deaths daily new confirmed deaths
Macau 9 13 +0 new
Micronesia 102 58 +0 new
Marshall Islands 131 17 +0 new
Taiwan 170 15,099 +24 new


According to Oxford Univ., ourworldindata.org/covid-cases (2022-12-26),  Taiwan's "daily new confirmed cases" ranks world No.4; Taiwan's "how long does it take for the number total confirmed cases to double" ranks world No. 9 (it takes 148 days to double)

　

　

n New York Times (2022-11-15), Taiwan's CovID-19 death rate ranks last among Asia's main countries (see pic. below).
 WSWS.org, 2022-12-1: In the past week alone, ... placing Taiwan in the top ten in the world for cases per million people. It also currently has the second-highest deaths per million. Total overall cases stand at 8,313,366 with 14,334 deaths, most occurring since April.

According to New York Times (2022-10-25), Taiwan's CovID-19 cases per 100,000 and deaths per 100,000 both are the worst among main Asian countries.

The China Times, editorial (2022-11-23):  Taiwan's CovID-19 case-fatality rate (確診致死率) in recent two weeks ranks world No.3, such a bad record lasts at least two weeks. chinatimes.com/opinion/20221123004522-262101?chdtv

The China Times (2022-10-26): Taiwan's confirmed cases per 1000,000 in last 7 days ranks world last.  (chinatimes.com/opinion/20221025005192-262101?chdtv)

　

New York Times, 2022-11-15
 Coronavirus World Map: Tracking the Global Outbreak   
nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
country/region Death daily per100,000 Deaths daily avg.
Taiwan 0.24 56.9
Hong Kong 0.13 10
New Zealand 0.1 5.1
S Korea 0.09 45.1
Japan 0.06 69.7
Australia 0.06 14.3
Malaysia 0.03 8.9
Indonesia 0.02 41.4
Philippines 0.02 17.4
Singapore 0.02 0.9
Thailand <0.01 6
India <0.01 4
Saudi Arabia <0.01 2.1
Bangladesh <0.01 0.4
Sri Lanka <0.01 0.3
Pakistan <0.01 0.3
Mongolia <0.01 0.1
Myanmar <0.01 0
UAE - 0
Qatar - 0
Nepal - 0
Laos - 0
Cambodia - 0
Vietnam - 0
China - 0

　

New York Times, 2022-10-25
Coronavirus World Map: Tracking the Global Outbreak   
nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
country/region cases daily avg. per100,000 Deaths daily avg. per100,000
World 364,848 5 1,488.9 0.02
Taiwan 36,863 155 61.9 0.26
Singapore 5,941 104 1.7 0.03
Hong Kong 5,438 73 8.3 0.11
New Zealand 3,260 66 4.4 0.09
S Korea 23,025 45 16.9 0.03
Japan 34,409 27 57.3 0.05
Australia 4634 18 12.9 0.05
Qatar 471 17 0.1 <0.01
Malaysia 1932 6 3 <0.01
UAE 282 3 0.1 <0.01
Philippines 1541 1 37.9 0.04
Indonesia 2201 <1 18.6 <0.01
Saudi Arabia 228 <1 1.9 <0.01
Mongolia 21 <1 0 -
Vietnam 593 <1 0.4 <0.01
Thailand 374 <1 5.7 <0.01
Myanmar 195 <1 0.9 <0.01
Laos 12 <1 0 -
India 1760 <1 9.5 <0.01
Bangladesh 176 <1 1.0 <0.01
China 844 <1 0 -
SriLanka 9 <1 0.6 <0.01

　

　

nTaiwan's "3-month case fatality rate" ranks world worst

Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking  2021-9-28

CovID status
Economy (country) 3-month case fatality rate % people covered by vaccine% score
Taiwan 13.4% (worst worldwide) 30 56.5
Saudi Arabia 1.5 60.9 71
India 1.5 31.3 56.2
Malaysia 1.4 64.6 44.1
HK 1.1 56.8 69.8
Australia 0.5 51.8 61.8
S. Korea 0.3 58.7 68.2
Japan 0.3 62 67.3
UAE 0.3 92.3 74.7
Singapore 0.2 80.8 70
New Zealand 0.1 49.9 59.6
mainland China 0 78.4 68.8

full details :   https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/

score and rank by indexes: lockdown severity,   flight capacity ,  vaccinated travel routes,  people covered by vaccines
　

nTaiwan's "3-month case fatality rate" ranks world worst

Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking   2021-10-28

CovID status (Asia & Pacific  )
Economy (country) 3-month case fatality rate % people covered by vaccine % overall
score
Taiwan 台灣 7.7% (world worst) 47.2 53.7
Saudi Arabia 2.1 66.5 68.5
India 1.2 31.3 37.6
Malaysia 1.4 64.6 75.6
Thailand 1.1 33.1 50.6
HK 0.3 59.8 66.6
Australia 0.6 67.3 62.2
S. Korea 0.4 74.7 68.6
Japan 0.4 73.3 68.4
UAE 0.3 97.3 74.6
Singapore 0.3 87.8 57.5
New Zealand 0.1 67.4 61.5
mainland China 0 80.2 65.2

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/
score and rank by indexes: lockdown severity,   flight capacity ,  vaccinated travel routes,  people covered by vaccines

　

　

nTaiwan's number of deaths increases one of world's most rapidly

Global comparison: where are confirmed CovID-19 deaths increasing most rapidly?
How long does it take the number of total  confirmed deaths to double
Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths   2022-10-8
Asian country days to double deaths Asian country days to double deaths
Taiwan  106  Sri Lanka 405
NZ 110    Philippines 412
Australia 149 Cambodia 426
S Korea 196  Myanmar 431
 HK 204  Indonesia 441  
 Japan  225 Bangladesh 462
 Laos 278   India 511
Singapore 292 China 955
Vietnam 349  Asia 481
Thai 374     world 527
 Mongolia 380 　 　
Malaysia 397 　 　
1. Micronesia   38 days, 2 Marshall Island 51 days, 3 Macau 85 days, Taiwan ranks world No.4 

　

　

nTaiwan's "Bloomberg CovID-19 Resilience Index" ranks next to last (They’ve been unable to outrun Omicron: Taiwan saw deaths spike as more virus circulated ...)


Bloomberg's CovID Resilience Ranking, 2022-6-29
　
country 1-month cases per 100,000 resilience rank 3-month case fatality rate pandemic MVPs
Taiwan 7826 next to last 0.2% No.37
mainland China 0 No.51 0.1% 　
Hong Kong 376 No.49 1.9% 　
Malaysia 169 No.37 0.2% 　
New Zealand 3383 No.35 0.2% No.21
Bangladesh 8 No.34 0.1% No.27
Japan 373 No.30 0.1% No.15
Vietnam 28 No.18 0% 　
Singapore 2255 No.14 0% No.13
Australia 3216 No.9 0.1% No.24
UAE 336 No.2 0% No.1
S. Korea 502 No.1 0.2% No.4
bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/
PS: Taiwan's scores on "Flight Capacity", "vaccinated travel routes" are last but one

　

　

nTaiwan's "Bloomberg's CovID-19 Resilience Index" ranks the third from the end

 
Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking   2022-5-27
　

 ranks of
 countries (Asia & Pacific)

CovID cases per 100,000 people over the past month (JHU) The Strength of
health-care system		 CovID deaths as a share of cases over the past 3months (%)
 No. 6.  S Korea 1955 89 0.1
12.  Singapore 1760 92 0.1
23.  Australia 5074 89 0.1
  34.  Malaysia  185 67 0.3
35.  Thai. 328 72 0.4
41.  Japan 786 96 0.2
  44.  New Zealand  4389 83 0.1
  48.  Hong Kong 115 - 0.8
 51. Taiwan (drop 19 positions )  6031 79 0
52.  Chn 9 70 0.1
53 countries in total; bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/spanish.html

　

　

nTaiwan's number of CovID cases per 1M ranks No.3 worldwide

new CovID-19 cases per 1M
Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-cases    2022-10-8
country new cases per 1M country new cases per 1M
Taiwan 1.88K Philippines 19.8
Singapore 840.28  Vietnam  9.93
HK 500.82 Thai  8.85
S Korea  453.83  India  1.94
NZ 277.1   China 0.66  
 Japan  265.1 Sri Lanka 0.49  
Australia 202.5  Cambodia 0.31
Malaysia 48.27  Macau  0
Mongolia 24.15 　 　
Asia  26.62 , N America  71, Taiwan ranks world No.3, No.1 Micronesia  10.16K, No.2 Saint Helena   8.06K

　

　

Global comparison: where are confirmed CovID-19 deaths increasing most rapidly?


How long does it take the number of total  confirmed deaths to double
Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths   2022-11-6
country days to double deaths country days to double deaths
Taiwan  137  Sri Lanka 445
NZ 143    Philippines 449
Australia 182 Cambodia 466
S Korea 235  Myanmar 471
 HK 243  Indonesia 481
 Japan  260 Bangladesh 502
 Laos 318   India 551
Singapore 295 Qatar 581
Vietnam 389 Israel 618
Thai 413 UAE 629
 Mongolia 420 Saudi Arab 778
Malaysia 436 China 995

　

nTaiwan's "Nikkei  CovID-19 Recovery Index" ranks world No.79

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index, as of Jul. 31
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/Japan-tumbles-in-COVID-recovery-ranking-as-infections-surge Aug. 6, 2022
rankings of main countries in Asia & Pacific
World Rank Asia RK Country/region World Rank Asia RK Country/region
2 1 Cambodia 47 13 Mongolia
4 2 Vietnam 52 14 New Zealand
5 3 UAE 53 15 Hong Kong
6 4 Qatar 58 16 Thailand
13 5 S. Korea 62 17 Indonesia
15 6 Saudi Arabia 62 17 Laos
20 7 Bangladesh 62 17 Pakistan
30 8 China 62 17 Philippines
35 9 Malaysia 69 21 Australia
40 10 Singapore 74 22 Myanmar
44 11 India 74 22 Sri Lanka
44 11 Nepal 79 24 Taiwan
South Korea, which is also seeing a jump in infections, slipped to 13th from fourth. Elsewhere in the region, Cambodia and Vietnam continued to rank high, in second place and fourth, respectively. Taiwan's cases and deaths falling gradually.

　

　

nTaiwan's "Nikkei  CovID-19 Recovery Index" ranks world No.112

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index

asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/Cambodia-Vietnam-top-COVID-recovery-index-as-Asia-fears-new-waves    
2022-7-8  comparison among main countries in Asia & Pacific
Asia's rank world rank country score
1 1 Cambodia 78
2 2 Vietnam 越南 76.5
3 4 S. Korea 南韓 72.5
4 5 Qatar 72
5 6 Bangladesh 71
5 6 Nepal 71
7 11 Saudi Arabia 69.5
8 14 Sri Lanka 68
9 18 Mongolia 67.5
9 18 UAE 67.5
11 26 Malaysia 66.5
12 30 Japan 64
13 35 India 63.5
14 38 China 63
15 49 Pakistan 61.5
16 53 Hong Kong 61
16 53 Indonesia 61
16 53 Thailand 61
19 62 Philippines 60.5
20 71 Laos 59
20 71 Singapore 59
22 79 Myanmar 58
23 88 Australia 55
24 101 NZ 53
25 112 Taiwan 50
Source: The Index ranks 121 countries/regions on infection management, vaccine rollouts, and social mobility.  A higher ranking indicates a country is closer to recovery with its low numbers of confirmed cases/deaths, better vaccination rates and less stringent social distancing measures; data sources include Our World in Data, Google CovID-19 Community Mobility Reports, Oxford CovID-19 Gov. Response Tracker, Cirum, and Nikkei Asia research

　

　

nTaiwan's " CovID-19 death rate" ranks world No.143 in Statista

Statista, 2022-7-27: Coronavirus (COVID-19)  death rate
in countries with confirmed deaths and over 1,000 reported cases
as of April 26, 2022, by country
 comparisons among main Asian countries

statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/
countries World ranks cases in last 7 days Death Rate
NZ Cook Islands No.1 526 0.02
Bhutan No.2 3317 0.03
New Zealand No.5 45748 0.07
Singapore No.8 16728 0.11
Australia No.9 247199 0.12
S Korea No.11 426645 0.13
Qatar No.19 546 0.19
Mongolia No.24 196 0.24
UAE No.26 1459 0.26
Israel No.26 21334 0.26
Laos No.34 4515 0.36
Japan No.38 244929 0.38
Vietnam No.42 82453 0.41
Thailand No.71 110385 0.6
China No.74 179114 0.6
Malaysia No.93 31317 0.8
Lebanon No.105 651 0.9
Saudi Arabia No.125 678 1.2
India No.128 12503 1.21
Nepal No.129 78 1.22
Taiwan No.143 23976 1.39

　

　

　

nTaiwan's "Nikkei  CovID-19 Recovery Index" ranks world No.57

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index, as of Aug. 31
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/China-slips-in-COVID-recovery-ranking-with-fresh-lockdowns Sept. 9, 2022
rankings of main countries in Asia & Pacific
World Rank Asia Rank Country/region World Rank Asia RK Country/region
2 1 Vietnam 33 10 Saudi Arabia
3 2 Cambodia 40 11 Mongolia
5 3 Qatar 50 12 China
11 4 UAE 52 13 Australia
14 5 S. Korea 52 13 Malaysia
19 6 Singapore 54 15 Pakistan
22 7 Bangladesh 57 16 India
27 8 New Zealand 57 16 Taiwan
31 9 Nepal 61 18 Hong Kong
Taiwan -  falling infections and eased anti-COVID policies.  Taiwan is trying to reopen its borders by resuming visa-free entry for visitors from the U.S., Europe and some other departure points, starting next week.
　

China Times》editorial, 2022-9-7: All of Taiwan's CovID-19 policies have been lagging behind, much slower than other countries.  Now Taiwan orders BA.1 vaccines, an outdated model of the next-generation vaccine.  Why is the government not willing to purchase the most updated vaccine targets BA.5?  Is there any "calculation" under table ??  chinatimes.com/opinion/20220907005076-262101?chdtv

　

　

　

CovID Resilience Index, 2021-8-26
 full data : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/

nTaiwan's "Bloomberg's CovID-19 Resilience Index" ranks No.41

Asian country ranking people covered by vaccine 3-month case fatality rate
Singapore 8 76.7 0.4%
UAE 15 82.7 0.2%
Hong Kong 18 47.7 0.9%
Saudi Arabia 19 51.1 1.2%
China 24 70.1 0%
S. Korea 26 37.3 0.3%
New Zealand 29 28.9 0%
Australia 31 34.2 0.5%
Japan 33 47.5 0.5%
Taiwan 41  21.7 7.6%

　

　



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