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- 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.
Comparison of best countries Jun 2020 with worst countries in Feb 2021
Looking at TIME magazine's best countries in June 2020, and choosing those with the highest cumulative confirmed cases / million population in August 2020 and Feb 2021 yields Argentina, Germany and Canada. Comparing these three with countries from the 26 leading countries with cumulative confirmed cases / million population and selecting those countries with >= 3.9 million population representing, Central Europe (the Czech Republic), West Asia (Israel), Central Asia (Georgia), South America (Brazil), West Europe (Portugal), Central America (Panama) and North America (US) we see the following:
Another way of looking at this is via the ranking of countries by Cumulative Confirmed cases per million population. The ranking for the TIME magazine's best countries in June 2020 is seen in the following table summarizes summarizing the data for these countries as seen on 2/1211/2021. The data is ordered by Cumulative Confirmed cases / million population (Mpop), and the rank is also by Cumulative 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 |
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Even the TIME magazine country (Argentina) with the highest Cumulative Confirmed cases per million population on February 11, 2021, when ranked together with all 164 reported countries is not in the top 15% of the 164 countries.