Colombia, the country in Latin America that best managed the pandemic

Bloomberg made a ranking of the countries that best managed the covid pandemic, since it began in 2020. According to the last delivery made on June 29, Colombia ranked first in Latin America and ranked number 12 worldwide.

(End of the health emergency in the country, what’s next?).

The Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking has tracked the best and worst places to be during the pandemic, using a variety of data points to capture a monthly snapshot of how the world’s largest economies were handling this health crisis. “, says the portal.

In June, South Korea came in first placefollowed by the United Arab Emirates and Ireland, Norway and, in fifth place, Saudi Arabia.

(Colombia, among countries that increased bank penetration due to the pandemic).

In the case of Colombia, the country rose 40 positions in this ranking. In May 2021, it ranked 52nd and, in this final edition, it ranked 12th, being the most resilient country in the face of the pandemic in Latin America, followed by Chile, in 13th place.

Next, the first 15 positions of the ranking:

1. South Korea
2. United Arab Emirates
3. Ireland
4. Norway
5. Saudi Arabia
6. Denmark
7. Canada
8. Netherlands
9. Australia
10. Turkey
11. Switzerland
12. Columbia
13. Chili
14. Singapore
15. Belgium

According to the Bloomberg report, these countries “They are successfully executing a strategy that most of the world has settled on: accept that the virus is here to stay, aggressively vaccinate the most vulnerable, and try to resume economic and social activity as if it were 2019.”

However, it is noteworthy that United States and United Kingdomtwo countries were key to developing vaccines against the virus, finishing in 36th and 22nd place respectively.

In this regard, Bloomberg assures that “although they reopened before others in mid-2021, their death toll from covid is among the highest in the world. In the US, almost as many people died after the vaccines were available than before, reflecting the cost of the deep political divide that held vaccination back.

The report makes a call to continue with the mass vaccination and, for this, he quotes Kate O’Brien , director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals of the WHO: “The most important and impactful part of coverage is when countries achieve coverage of 100% or close to 100% of their highest-risk populations.

And it concludes with a warning about the risk of a deadliest new strain of covid that defies the protection of vaccines and implies greater efforts. “This may even be in the form of a new disease, which explains the high level of concern about monkeypox,” they add.

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*With information from EL TIEMPO