According to Bloomberg's Covid Resilience Ranking, which was launched last year in November to rank countries on the basis of how safe they are to stay in during Coronavirus, Singapore has beat New Zealand to emerge on the first spot.
“A combination of nailing the virus and rolling out vaccines at one of the fastest rates in Asia saw Singapore top Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking this month, dethroning New Zealand for the first time in our measure of the best and worst places to be in the pandemic era,” read the report.
Singapore has locally-transmitted cases down to near zero and has already administered vaccines equivalent to cover a fifth of its population, an aspect of pandemic control that other high performing countries like New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan are lagging on.