31-10-2021, 07:20 AM
Singapore—In April, Bloomberg declared Singapore “the world’s best place to be during Covid.”
A scant six months later, the country ranked 39th, its lowest ranking ever on Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking scale, amid record-high Covid infections and deaths.
On Bloomberg’s list Singapore is now ranked lower than South Africa, with its nearly three million Covid cases and 90,000 deaths, and whose vaccination rate is yet to reach 20 per cent.
The reasons why the island-nation rated poorly are the stringent local measures that have limited people’s mobility, the slow travel reopening and flight capacity recovery that is far less than that of the US and Europe, even though Singapore has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
Region-wise, however, it’s still far outpacing its nearest neighbours, with Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines still in the bottom six for the third month in a row.
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/singapore...d=msedgntp
A scant six months later, the country ranked 39th, its lowest ranking ever on Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking scale, amid record-high Covid infections and deaths.
On Bloomberg’s list Singapore is now ranked lower than South Africa, with its nearly three million Covid cases and 90,000 deaths, and whose vaccination rate is yet to reach 20 per cent.
The reasons why the island-nation rated poorly are the stringent local measures that have limited people’s mobility, the slow travel reopening and flight capacity recovery that is far less than that of the US and Europe, even though Singapore has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
Region-wise, however, it’s still far outpacing its nearest neighbours, with Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines still in the bottom six for the third month in a row.
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/singapore...d=msedgntp
