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Below is a table of the cumulative cases and deaths from the TIME report, to which we have added the cumulative cases/million population and the ratio of cumulative deaths/cases for June 22, 2020 from the Johns Hopkins data.
| Country | cases from TIME | deaths from TIME | cases/million population 6/22/2020 | ratio deaths/cases 6/22/2020 |
| Argentina | 20,197 | 608 | 994 | 2.32% |
| Australia | 7251 | 102 | 294 | 1.36% |
| Canada | 98,289 | 7,717 | 2,740 | 8.36% |
| Greece | 2952 | 180 | 316 | 5.78% |
| Iceland | 1,806 | 10 | 5,318 | 0.55% |
| New Zealand | 1,504 | 22 | 314 | 1.45% |
| Singapore | 37,183 | 24 | 7,232 | 0.06% |
| South Korea | 11,668 | 273 | 245 | 2.25% |
| Taiwan | 443 | 7 | 19 | 1.57% |
| United Arab Emirates | 37,018 | 273 | 4,580 | 0.67% |
| Germany | 186,522 | 8,752 | 2,280 | 4.64% |
Status February 2021
Cumulative cases
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- Although Argentina, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Canada, Iceland and Greece according to the TIME magzaine magzaine were among the best countries in June 2020 they have all ran into continued increases in confirmed cases since.
- Singapore after a poor start managed to dramatically limit increases in confirmed cases starting in August 2020.
- South Korea has been doing well though it is currently seeing a third surge in cases.
- After a couple of surges, the island nations of New Zealand and Australia have successfully limited confirmed cases.
- Right from the beginning, the island nation of Taiwan has managed to do an amazing job of limiting confirmed cases.
It is interesting that the island nations Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia have performed very well while Iceland has had a rockier time.
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The deaths show similar results, i.e.:
- Taiwan, Singapore, and New Zealand followed by South Korea and Australia are the best performers.
- The worst off are Argentina, Germany, Greece and Canada followed by the United Arab Emirates and Iceland.
The following table summarizes the data for these countries as seen on 2/12/2021. The data is ordered by Confirmed cases / million population (Mpop), and the rank is also by Confirmed cases / million population.
| Rank | State | Confirmed cases | deaths | deaths/ confirmed % | confirmed /MPop | deaths /MPop | Population (K) | Region |
| 27 | Argentina | 2015496 | 50029 | 2.48 | 44594.7889 | 1106.9 | 45195.774 | S America |
| 42 | United Arab Emirates | 342974 | 986 | 0.29 | 34677.458 | 99.693 | 9890.402 | W Asia |
| 50 | Germany | 2330422 | 64771 | 2.78 | 27814.6617 | 773.07 | 83783.942 | Europe |
| 56 | Canada | 824611 | 21168 | 2.57 | 21848.541 | 560.86 | 37742.154 | N America |
| 64 | Iceland | 6033 | 29 | 0.48 | 17679.4835 | 84.983 | 341.243 | Europe |
| 65 | Greece | 170244 | 6077 | 3.57 | 16333.4086 | 583.03 | 10423.054 | Europe |
| 82 | Singapore | 59777 | 29 | 0.05 | 10217.6933 | 4.957 | 5850.342 | SE Asia |
| 115 | South Korea | 83199 | 1514 | 1.82 | 1622.78765 | 29.53 | 51269.185 | E Asia |
| 127 | Australia | 28892 | 909 | 3.15 | 1133.02476 | 35.647 | 25499.884 | SE Asia |
| 143 | New Zealand | 2328 | 25 | 1.07 | 482.763898 | 5.1843 | 4822.233 | SE Asia |
| 159 | Taiwan | 937 | 9 | 0.96 | 39.342018 | 0.3779 | 23816.775 | E Asia |