Ideally, every single country in the world should be putting up a strongfight against the coronavirus pandemic that has defined pretty much all of2020. However, some countries have simply been much better in dealing withthe outbreak than others. And in a development that can only boost ourfaith in how we are handling the deadly pandemic, newly released rankingsshow that Pakistan has surpassed India by quite a bit in terms of COVID-19resilience.
Issued by Bloomberg and *published in **The Print*link,the *Covid Resilience Rankings* show that Pakistan currently stands at 27thposition globally with regards to how effectively it has managed to dealwith the raging pandemic. India lags behind in 34th position, with aresilience score of 58.1 compared to Pakistan’s 61.7.
India has also been surpassed by the Asian nations of Singapore, Hong Kong,Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In fact, a dozen Asiancountries have scored better than India when it comes to COVID-19resilience.
New Zealand, unsurprisingly, has taken the global lead with a score of 85.4.
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The Bloomberg report has based its rankings on the degree of effectivenesswith which a country has handled the virus with the least amount ofdisruption to business and society. The rankings are a product of a surveyof 53 economies of over 200 billion dollars on key metrics including growthin virus cases to overall mortality rates, testing capabilities and vaccinesupply arrangements, local healthcare capacity, economic impact oflockdowns, and the citizens’ freedoms of movement.
According to the survey, Pakistan has been able to perform so well becauseof its “relative remoteness” and younger average population that has keptthe overall mortality rates low. Plus, with *Pakistan’s economy growingsteadily*linkthe pandemic, it is clear that the country has managed to handle theeconomic repercussions of COVID-19 fairly well.
