David's Covid Diaries

(Topic suggested by Graham Thornicroft).   A comparison between five leading populists Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Viktor Orban and Narendra Modi   23 July Total Cases       Cases/M     Daily cases      Total deaths      Deaths/M      Daily deaths Bolsonaro               2.2M                  9,917 41,000 80,100 383 1,367 Trump 3.9M                 11,570           72,000     ...

                                                                                              Total Cases       Cases/M     Daily cases      Total deaths      Deaths/M      Daily deaths               USA 3.5M    ...

  As can be seen from the table, two countries stand out as having much lower cases /M and deaths /M: Sri Lanka and Nepal. The other three, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, have very high rates for both Covid Cases and Covid Deaths, rather similar to 4 major European Countries – Spain, Italy, the UK and France. This blog will deal with the question – how did these two smaller countries do it?   I do not find any common ground between Sri Lanka and Nepal, so I will deal with them separately.    India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka Nepal Population 1,380M 212M 169M 22M 28M Pop.density/ squ. km         464 723 1,115 341 291 GINI index           35.2 36.2 32.4 ...