ISLAMABAD – Pakistan bagged the first position in The Economist’s GlobalNormalcy Index, as the South Asian country lifted most of its COVID-inducedrestrictions.
The normalcy index issued by London based newspaper offers some evidenceabout how people are responding to restrictions. Interestingly, Pakistanranked above many developed economies, including Britain, India, and the US.
The Index determines which countries returned to their pre-pandemic levels,by grading each country using eight metrics of human behavior. Theindicators are public transport, time not at home, retail, office use, roadtraffic, flights, cinema, and sports attendance.
The majority population in the developed nations is now vaccinated, thereport said while warning that Europe and Central Asian countries willwitness an increase in Covid cases owing to the cold weather.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan has administered around 111,967,455 Covid doses so farand it fared better than other countries with an increase in dailyactivities, suggesting an ease of Covid restrictions due to fewer cases.
Following the development, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry shared atweet saying Pakistan was in a far better position than the rest of theworld due to its effective handling of the novel disease.
