Colombia: 48th place on the Covid-19 resilience list

The prestigious economic analysis study, placed New Zeland as the country that acted with the utmost precision and speed in containing the virus, followed by Japan Y Taiwan, the latter country, according to the publication, acted as a dam to avoid an even bigger catastrophe than imagined.

Bloomberg’s ranking took into account how each country has dealt with and contained the virus, as well as faced the challenge of a quarantine, unthinkable in early 2020.

Such effective measures as closure of borders, assertive communication, among others, they were at a similar level to that of health infrastructure.

New Zeland was the example highlighted by Bloomberg, which he assigned to 85.4 in the criteria formulated for its analysis: closure of borders, clear political lines, citizens’ trust in institutions and compliance with bio-sanitary standards.

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Japan, the second on the list, was highlighted for his experience in managing previous crises that allowed the public and the Japanese government to deal with the threat of Covid-19.

The behavior of the citizen, based on respect for social distances, on permanent hygiene, as well as on the intensive use of a mask, was highlighted by the publication, which underlined the iron confidence of the citizens in their government, a combination of parliamentary system and monarchy, which recalls the postwar period (1946-1950) in which the country was radically transformed.

Taiwan, whose response has been one of containment, has secured its borders since the beginning of the pandemic and has maintained a similar behavior to that of Japan in the criteria outlined by Bloomberg. To this were added an exemplary economic management with the incentive to produce masks, which ended up being requested by other countries, in addition to the speed with which they reacted from patient zero in their territory.

In the case of Latin America, the half table comes first Colombia have been occupied by Mexico, Argentina, Peru. On the European side, before the number 48 occupied as a nation, there are Belgium and the Czech Republic.

For Bloomberg, the criteria for the evaluation of resilience at Covid-19 there were ten, presented below:

A look at national resilience

Got it as the “Ability to overcome adverse situations with integrity”, was disclosed by the ethologist Boris Cyrulnik after studies conducted on populations who survived conflicts such as the Jewish holocaust, the experience of childhood in orphanages or the drama of street dwellers in Latin American cities.

According to John Hopkins University, The country has consistently occupied the top 10 among nations with the highest number of coronavirus cases, below the United States, India, Brazil, Russia, France, Spain and Argentina, whose positions on the Bloomberg list are between 18 ( USA) and 36 (Argentina).

GDP maintains a downward projection of 15.7% for the second quarter of 2020 and faces a recession, despite the various economic reactivation strategies promoted by the government. In addition, the border closure, one of the fastest in the region, just 20 days after the WHO announcement of 11 March, was lifted at the end of August.

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Another sensitive indicator was the number of deaths that the country contributed to the catastrophe: only in September, according to the same institution, was the 11 in the global consolidation of the deceased.

At this time, the country has exceeded the figure dand 35,000 deaths from viruses and 1,000,000 infected, despite the fact that, as declared by the health authorities, awaits the arrival of a second peak and shops with pharmaceutical companies for the delivery of 20 million vaccines to start protecting the population in 2021.

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