New Zealand loses top spot for best place to be during Covid to Singapore
Slow vaccine rollout cited as the difference between the two countries, both of which have virtually no community coronavirus cases
New Zealand has been dethroned for the first time as the best place to be during Covid 19, as a result of its slower vaccine rollout. The country was bumped from the top spot by Singapore, in Bloomberg's Covid resilience ranking.
While both countries have near-zero community cases, Singapore's vaccine rollout is much further advanced. So while life was relatively normal in several countries thanks to strong control of the virus, Singapore has already administered vaccines equivalent to cover a fifth of its population, an aspect of pandemic control that other virus eliminators like New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan are lagging on," the report concluded.
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