Introdution
In June 2020 TIME magazine published a report ":Which countries handled COVID-19 best". The countries included were: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Greece, Iceland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates, with an honorable mention to Germany. We are interested in seeing how well the TIME June 2020 countries are doing today (Feb 2021)
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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 summarizing the data for these countries as seen on 2/11/2021. 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 |
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.