Sri Lanka among 100 safest countries for COVID-19

Sri Lanka is ranked 92 in a list of 100 safest countries in the world for COVID-19 with Germany ranked No 1, according to a recently released ranking. Germany is followed closely by New Zealand and South Korea. Switzerland, which was first on an earlier report, has dropped back to fourth. Japan is fifth, and Australia and China are sixth and seventh, states an article published in the Forbes website.

The most dangerous nations?

Somaliland, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Mali, according to Deep Knowledge Group, the think tank behind the survey.

The ranking isn’t what most people expect: it’s not just about how many infections there are right now, or how many deaths COVID-19 has caused. Rather, it’s about a complex series of assessments on multiple medical, economic, and political factors. Added up, they increase or decrease a country’s score.

According to the report, the point is not so much whether a country has been hit hard by COVID-19 yet or not — although that certainly matters — but also whether there’s political will and social acceptance of quarantine and lockdown measures. Whether the national and local governments cooperate well. If a nation has good monitoring and detection and a strong medical system. And, how vulnerable a country is to economic dislocation due to COVID-19, plus how well equipped a country is to handle emergencies.

All told, Deep Knowledge Group says they looked at more than 140 parameters and considered more than 35,000 data points.

Here are the 100 safest countries, according to their report:

1. Germany
2. New Zealand
3. South Korea
4. Switzerland
5. Japan
6. Australia
7. China
8. Austria
9. United Arab Emirates
10. Singapore
11. Israel
12. Canada
13. Saudi Arabia
14. Iceland
15. Taiwan
16. Norway
17. Liechtenstein
18. Hong Kong
19. Finland
20. Kuwait
21. Denmark
22. Monaco
23. Luxembourg
24. Bahrain
25. Hungary
26. Netherlands
27. Qatar
28. Cyprus
29. Oman
30. Andorra
31. United Kingdom
32. Vietnam
33. Estonia
34. Latvia
35. Ireland
36. Turkey
37. Poland
38. San Marino
39. Belgium
40. Georgia
41. Greece
42. Lithuania
43. Italy
44. Malta
45. Russia
46. Malaysia
47. Slovenia
48. Uruguay
49. Sweden
50. Brunei
51. Slovakia
52. Spain
53. Czechia
54. France
55. United States of America
56. Croatia
57. Tunisia
58. Argentina
59. Azerbaijan
60. Thailand
61. Greenland
62. Portugal
63. Maldives
64. Ukraine
65. Chile
66. Brazil
67. Belarus
68. Barbados
69. Rwanda
70. Albania
71. Cuba
72. The Bahamas
73. Armenia
74. Romania
75. Seychelles
76. Mauritius
77. Bulgaria
78. Mexico
79. Indonesia
80. India
81. Paraguay
82. Peru
83. Montenegro
84. Macao
85. Venezuela
86. Kazakhstan
87. Costa Rica
88. Trinidad and Tobago
89. Jordan
90. Dominican Republic
91. Gibraltar
92. Sri Lanka
93. Nigeria
94. Mongolia
95. Equatorial Guinea
96. South Africa
97. Moldova
98. Grenada
99. Republic of Serbia
100. Colombia